Is it easy to find a remote devops engineer job?

Question

Devops

Good afternoon, I have been working as a system administrator for 8 years. (current place of work, large gas company). + I serve enterprises on an ongoing basis. income 65~
I thought about developing myself as a specialist, there are no vacancies on devops in the city, I only consider remote work.
What is the chance of getting into this profession if I learn the basic stack required for devops? what are the salaries in this area remotely?
On HH, salaries are very versatile, from 70-150.
Or is it not worth trying as it's more of an office position? secrecy, etc.
I'm from a small town (for inattentive advisers)

Answer 1

IMHO, admin experience and devops are somewhat different things. There is no basic stack as such, and it all depends on the specific case.
I will describe what is meant by devops in the company where I work.
We have a web project for creating and processing video, at the moment everything is in AWS. Accordingly, devops should fully know everything related to AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc. - and there are a lot of these, by the way), now we have a transition to Kubernetes, so it has been added to the stack (which is generally a trifle , compared to AWS services), which means devops needs to know how to seamlessly migrate our entire infrastructure from ECS to k8s.
And we were recently banned by Github, and devops had to organize the transfer of all tasks from Github to the local Gitlab.
Something like this.
If you understand AWS, there will almost certainly be no problem with remote work.

Answer 2

There is a remote for devops. In our company, for example, all admins work remotely, but it is very difficult to find people. And the problem for regional employees is not in money, but in the level of competence. It is necessary that a person physically knows the hardware, knows how to work with configs, security and other stuff. As a result, the best candidates are those who come from the offices of some large regional companies or banks.
There is a very funny situation here. If this is a devops from Moscow, then there are 200+ from the start. For less money, in general, people will not talk to you for the necessary knowledge. If these are regional devops, then 99% are eliminated due to the fact that they have insufficient competence (there was also a good administrator, a former military man, from some satellite center from the Khabarovsk Territory). In other words, if your job was to pull wires, get angry and bring in new employees, then the chances are extremely small.
Although it must be admitted that from time to time "less tough admins" are hired remotely to introduce support (Monitor servers, hot fix some errors, write configurations for test machines, etc.).

Answer 3

Devops has no more office and secrecy than the average programmer. With remote work, in fact, the same problems as a programmer: an experienced devops engineer can easily find a job remotely, a person with no experience is unlikely to find it, since remotely messing around with a beginner is hell.