L2 Support to SRE 35 LPA in 4 Years — Full Career Journey | DevOps Siva

🚨 DevSecOps with AWS + AiOps — New Telugu Batch Starting 20th September 2026 🎯 REGISTER NOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 https://links.joindevops.com/92s 👉 Join Our Community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FkjWoW7yz9f... All this Batch updates will be shared here. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📅 BATCH DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Demo Class : 20-Sep-2026 | 10:30 AM IST Batch Starts: 20-Sep-2026 Timings : 07:15 – 08:45 AM IST (Mon–Fri) Duration : 5 Months | 150+ Hours Language : Telugu Trainer : Sivakumar Reddy Mettukuru From L2 Support at Cisco to DevOps/SRE: this is the real career journey of Jhansi. 🔥 In this special JoinDevOps career podcast, Jhansi shares how she moved from a developer background into production engineering, experienced the limitations of an L2 support role, discovered DevOps through production incidents, transitioned into a DevOps team, and eventually had to restart her career preparation after a company restructuring. Instead of immediately accepting another job, she used her available time to systematically prepare for DevOps/SRE interviews, build projects, improve her resume, optimize LinkedIn, research target companies and understand what real engineering teams were looking for. Her journey is particularly useful for anyone currently working in L2 Support, Production Support, System Administration, Cloud Support or other roles who wants to move into DevOps/SRE. 🚀 In this Podcast, You'll Learn: 00:00 - Jhansi's Career Transformation & Cisco Journey 02:33 - From Srikakulam to Andhra University & CSE 09:30 - How She Started Coding & Building GitHub Projects 11:09 - COVID: Using the Time to Build Technical Skills 14:51 - First Internship & Real-Time C++ Project 17:23 - Discovering Production Engineering & DevOps 18:51 - How She Cracked the Cisco Production Engineer Interview 21:03 - Reality of L2 Support at Cisco 23:49 - Why She Stayed in L2 Support for 3 Years 26:39 - How She Used Her Own Time to Build Automation POCs 28:41 - Layoff Experience & Why She Didn't Give Up 29:40 - How She Discovered DevOps 30:42 - Why YouTube Alone Wasn't Enough 31:43 - Why She Chose JoinDevOps 32:48 - Her Daily Learning & Notes Strategy 34:25 - Handling Fear During DevOps Learning 36:02 - How She Moved Internally Into DevOps 37:30 - From Course Projects to Complex Production Systems 38:38 - Cisco DevOps Tech Stack: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform, EKS, Prometheus & Grafana 39:12 - AI Initiatives & Python Automation 39:47 - How She Prepared Before the Layoff 41:24 - Her Mindset After Losing the Job 42:59 - Choosing DevOps + AI & DevSecOps for the Future 44:02 - The 4-Month Interview Preparation Plan 45:03 - How She Prioritized Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD & SRE 46:05 - Daily 9-to-5 Interview Preparation Routine 47:10 - Why She Refused to Join Just Any Company 48:14 - How She Shortlisted Target Companies 48:49 - LinkedIn Research: Talking Directly to SRE Engineers 50:20 - How She Decided When She Was Ready for Interviews 51:21 - The Power of Technical Notes for Interviews 54:08 - Her DevOps Notes & Revision Strategy 56:48 - How She Customized Her Resume for Target Jobs 58:49 - LinkedIn Posting & Building Recruiter Visibility 59:47 - Her LinkedIn Job Application Strategy 01:01:22 - First DevOps/SRE Interview Experience 01:02:33 - Linux, Terraform & Ansible Technical Round 01:03:37 - Kubernetes Architecture & Scenario-Based Questions 01:04:39 - SLA, SLO, Availability & MTTR Interview Questions This podcast is especially useful for: L2 Support Engineers | Production Support Engineers | Cloud Engineers | DevOps Engineers | SREs | System Administrators | IT Professionals with Career Gaps | DevOps Beginners 🎯 Don't just prepare to change jobs. Prepare to build a better career. 👍 If this story motivated you, like, share, and subscribe for more real career transformation stories. #JoinDevOps #DevOpsCareer #SRE #CiscoSRE #Layoff #CareerComeback #DevOps #DevOpsCareer #DevOpsEngineer #SRE #DevOpsInterview #L2Support #ProductionSupport #Kubernetes #Terraform #AWS #CloudComputing #DevSecOps #CareerGrowth #ITCareer #DevOpsTelugu