Demonstrating Impact As An Infrastructure Engineer

I recently came across this article on showing your value in DevOps and SRE by Amin Astaneh.

Amin talks about ways you can demonstrate your impact on the business as an infrastructure engineer.

CTOs must justify the crazy AWS bills and salaries to the CFO, even at tech companies. Every time this budget dance happens, engineers struggle to quantify their value.

The most important takeaway for me is to understand the goal of the business you work for so you can optimize for the metrics they care about.


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