4 Years into my career – What should I focus on next?

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4 Years into my career – What should I focus on next? Hi everyone, I'm looking for some advice from more experienced DevOps/SRE's/Platform Engineers or whatever fancy title nowadays is used on what skills I should focus on next. I'm currently about 4 years into my career and working as a Cloud Engineer. Over the last few years I've focused heavily on cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation. I've also completed the following certifications - AZ-900, AZ-104, AWS SAA-C03, Terraform Associate, CKA and CKS. Outside of work, I've also built a homelab where I've deplyed a Kubernetes cluster, deployed Grafana and Prometheus together with various applications. So I feel quite comfortable with Linux, AWS and Azure, k8s and in general more infrastructure stuff. However I have some notable gaps like programming in which I have very limited coding experience. Don't know Python, Go and I see them more and more requested for DevOps/Platform Engineers in my area. Networking isn't also my strongest skill, I mean I'm comfortable with cloud networking concepts, but I lack deeper networking knowledge. At this point, I'm trying to decide where my effort would provide the biggest long-term return: 1. Focus on programming (Python, Go, software engineering fundamentals, automation development) 2. Focus on networking (possibly CCNA-level knowledge and deeper network engineering concepts) I'm not planning on pursuing more certifications right now. My goal is to strengthen my weakest areas rather than collect more certs. One option I'm currently considering is the DevOps learning path on boot.dev. It seems to focus heavily on programming and software engineering concepts, which is an area where I feel need to upskill the most. If anyone has experience with it, I'd be interested to hear whether you found it worthwhile and whether it's a good investment for someone coming from an infrastructure-focused background. For those of you who are seasoned in DevOps engineering: What would you prioritize if you were in my position ? Thanks in advance for your help! [link] [handle]

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