You can write Dockerfiles in your sleep.
You've got Terraform in production. Kubernetes clusters running clean. CI/CD pipelines that your team depends on every single day.
And yet - you're still doing the same work, at the same level, two years later.
This isn't a skills problem. It's a career pattern problem. And it's more common in DevOps than in almost any other engineering discipline.
Here are the four traps keeping skilled DevOps engineers stuck at mid-level - and what it actually takes to break out.
