Morning guys
I've been in it now for 23 years since leaving school working my way up to a team lead position which I've been doing a few years
A couple years ago the company wanted to pivot the solution to IAAS in prep for moving to SAAS once the product was ready and I was doing some of the ground work ad-hoc
4 months ago I was approached to take this on a bit more full time allowing my deputy to step up, no official position offered it was to be a 3-6 month trial to see if it paid off.
This ad-hoc position was built around organising sales DevOps engineering and planning, making sure the solution was right and complete all the customer interactions, pre sales and technical check etc
Yesterday I was asked if id consider making it full time, they are looking at bringing in a cloud manager with Azure / Aws commercial and marketing experience but want to formalise my role, cloud operations specialist has been talked about
Now nothing concrete has been offered yet but it seem like it should be a no brainer something new on my CV, no direct reports to faff about with, more money and IAAS/ SAAS is the company strategy so in theory better job security as the current teams focus is on-prem technical support.
I can't shake the feeling though that this is a step back to an individual contributer role and has a higher redundancy potential if it goes pear shaped or this new chap decides he can do what I'm doing so doesn't need me. I don't think that would happen given how busy I have been but just a niggling feeling
Thoughts?
I've been in it now for 23 years since leaving school working my way up to a team lead position which I've been doing a few years
A couple years ago the company wanted to pivot the solution to IAAS in prep for moving to SAAS once the product was ready and I was doing some of the ground work ad-hoc
4 months ago I was approached to take this on a bit more full time allowing my deputy to step up, no official position offered it was to be a 3-6 month trial to see if it paid off.
This ad-hoc position was built around organising sales DevOps engineering and planning, making sure the solution was right and complete all the customer interactions, pre sales and technical check etc
Yesterday I was asked if id consider making it full time, they are looking at bringing in a cloud manager with Azure / Aws commercial and marketing experience but want to formalise my role, cloud operations specialist has been talked about
Now nothing concrete has been offered yet but it seem like it should be a no brainer something new on my CV, no direct reports to faff about with, more money and IAAS/ SAAS is the company strategy so in theory better job security as the current teams focus is on-prem technical support.
I can't shake the feeling though that this is a step back to an individual contributer role and has a higher redundancy potential if it goes pear shaped or this new chap decides he can do what I'm doing so doesn't need me. I don't think that would happen given how busy I have been but just a niggling feeling
Thoughts?
