DevOps engineers placed in legacy roles lose modern stack fluency for interviews
Engineers forced into legacy support work (RHEL, Ansible, Jenkins) while job-hunting for modern roles (AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes) report skill decay and interview failures. Long on-site hours leave little time to maintain proficiency on tools they no longer use daily.
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