From "I Don't Know If I Can Do This" to DevOps Engineer in Electronic City β A Real Journey
From "I Don't Know If I Can Do This" to DevOps Engineer in Electronic City β A Real Journey π
I want to tell you something that nobody in the IT training industry ever says out loud.
The week before I enrolled in a DevOps Course in Electronic City, I sat in my room at 11pm, stared at a YouTube video about Kubernetes, understood approximately nothing, and seriously considered just staying in my QA job forever.
I am telling you this because if you are reading this post and feeling that exact feeling right now β the combination of wanting something better and being completely terrified that you are not smart enough to get it β I want you to know that feeling is not a sign that DevOps is wrong for you.
It is just what the beginning feels like. π±
The Before
I had been a manual QA engineer for two and a half years at a mid-size company near Electronic City. The work was fine. The salary was not fine. βΉ4.2 LPA after two and a half years, watching developers and DevOps engineers on my team earning double what I earned while working on infrastructure I did not understand and pipelines I had never touched.
I knew I needed to upskill. I had known for about a year. I had bookmarked approximately forty-seven different online courses and started exactly zero of them.
The problem was not motivation. The problem was that every time I tried to learn DevOps on my own β watching tutorials, reading documentation, trying to follow along β I would hit a wall somewhere between "install Docker" and "configure Kubernetes" and the whole thing would fall apart because I did not have a lab environment, I did not have someone to ask when things broke, and I did not have any structure telling me what to learn in what order.
The Decision
A colleague who had completed DevOps Training in Electronic City at eMexo Technologies the previous year had just moved to a cloud infrastructure role at a product company in Electronic City Phase II. βΉ9.5 LPA. The same person who six months earlier had been complaining about the same salary ceiling I was hitting.
I asked him every question I had. How hard is it really? Did you understand everything from day one? What happened when you got stuck? What did placement actually look like?
His answers were honest. He said the first two weeks were genuinely difficult β Linux and shell scripting from scratch when you have never used a command line is humbling. He said there were moments where he sat in the lab at 9pm trying to debug a Jenkins pipeline configuration and wondering why he had done this to himself. He said the trainer answered every question β even the ones he was embarrassed to ask twice.
And he said that three months after completing the course and getting his AWS certification, he had three interview offers and took the best one.
I booked the free demo class the same evening. π―
The Demo
I will be honest with you about the demo too.
I walked into the DevOps Training Center in Electronic City at eMexo Technologies expecting to feel even more confused than I already was. What I did not expect was to watch a trainer take a blank terminal and build a working Docker container, push it to a registry, and trigger a Jenkins pipeline that deployed it β all in about forty minutes β while explaining every single step in a way that somehow made sense even to me.
I am not saying I understood everything. I did not. But I understood enough to see the shape of what I was going to learn. I could see how the pieces connected. And that was the first time DevOps had stopped feeling like an impenetrable wall and started feeling like a thing I could actually learn.
I enrolled the next day. π
The First Two Weeks
My colleague was right. Linux was humbling.
I had used Windows my entire life. Suddenly I was in a terminal learning file permissions, process management, cron jobs, and bash scripting β and feeling like everyone else in the batch understood everything faster than I did.
Two things saved me.
First β the trainer's approach. Not once did I feel stupid for asking a question that seemed obvious. The trainer's consistent message was: there are no stupid questions here, only questions you haven't asked yet. I asked a lot of questions. Some of them were probably obvious. I asked them anyway.
Second β the batch community. There were twelve of us in the batch. Three freshers, four working professionals including me, two career-gap candidates, and three people from completely non-IT backgrounds. We formed a WhatsApp group. We shared notes. When someone figured out why their Docker container was throwing a configuration error at 10pm, they posted the solution in the group. That collective problem-solving was something no YouTube tutorial could have given me.
The Tools That Changed How I Thought
I want to tell you about the specific moments in the DevOps Certification Course in Electronic City where things clicked β because these are the moments that make the difficulty of the first two weeks completely worth it.
π³ Docker β Week 3
The moment I wrote my first Dockerfile, built an image, and ran a container of an actual web application I had deployed β and then ran the exact same container on a different machine and it just worked β I understood in a visceral, non-theoretical way what containerization actually solves. Years of "it works on my machine" complaints dissolved into a single practical demonstration.
βοΈ Jenkins β Week 5
Building my first complete CI/CD pipeline β code push to GitHub triggers Jenkins, Jenkins builds the Docker image, runs tests, pushes the image to a registry, deploys to a staging environment β and watching the whole sequence execute automatically while I did nothing but push a commit β was genuinely exciting in a way I had not expected technical training to be. I finally understood why DevOps engineers get paid what they get paid.
βΈοΈ Kubernetes β Week 7
Kubernetes had been the thing I was most afraid of. The vocabulary alone β pods, deployments, services, ingress, configmaps, secrets, namespaces β felt like learning a new language. The trainer spent the first Kubernetes session doing exactly one thing: deploying a single container as a Kubernetes pod and explaining every YAML field line by line. By the end of that session I had my first pod running. That was all. Just one pod. But it was enough to make the rest of the architecture comprehensible.
ποΈ Terraform β Week 9
Writing a Terraform configuration that provisioned a complete AWS VPC β subnets, security groups, EC2 instance, S3 bucket, IAM role β and watching it execute and create real infrastructure in the AWS console was the moment I stopped thinking of myself as a QA engineer who was learning DevOps and started thinking of myself as a DevOps engineer. The shift was that specific and that sudden.
The Certification
The Best DevOps Training in Electronic City prepares you for real certifications β not participation certificates.
I sat for the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer β Professional exam six weeks after completing the course. The exam preparation sessions had been rigorous β full-length timed mock exams, domain-by-domain weakness analysis, and a final mock exam scored under real exam conditions the week before the actual test.
I passed on my first attempt. π
The feeling of seeing that pass result was something I am genuinely not able to describe adequately in a Tumblr post. Two years of knowing I needed to change something and not doing it β six months of actually doing it β all landing on a screen that said I had passed.
I cried a little bit. In a good way. I am not embarrassed about that.
The Placement
The DevOps Training and Placement in Electronic City at eMexo is the part of the program that I had been most skeptical about before I enrolled. Every training institute claims placement support. Very few actually deliver it in a meaningful way.
What eMexo's placement team actually did:
π Rebuilt my resume from scratch β not just formatting, but completely repositioning my QA experience as DevOps-relevant context and foregrounding my certification and portfolio projects.
π Rebuilt my LinkedIn profile β new headline, new About section, skills section optimized for DevOps recruiter searches. Within two weeks of the updated profile going live I had three unsolicited recruiter messages. I had never had that before.
π€ Three rounds of mock technical interviews β real DevOps question banks, real time pressure, real feedback after each session on exactly what to improve.
π€ Direct referral to a hiring manager at a product company in Electronic City Phase I β not an HR portal, not a job board link. A direct introduction from the placement coordinator to someone who had hired eMexo graduates before and trusted the quality of the recommendation.
I had my first technical interview eleven days after the mock interview sessions. I received an offer fourteen days after that.
βΉ9.2 LPA. More than double my previous salary. At a company four kilometers from where I had been sitting at 11pm wondering if I was smart enough to do this. π
What I Want You to Know
If you are sitting where I was sitting β knowing you need to change something, being afraid that you are not the kind of person who can do technical things at this level β I want to say this as directly as I can:
The feeling is not evidence. It is just fear. And fear is not a reason.
The DevOps Training Institute in Electronic City at eMexo Technologies does not require you to be a genius. It requires you to show up, ask questions, do the labs, and trust the process. The rest β the tools clicking, the confidence building, the portfolio growing, the certification landing, the offer arriving β follows from those four things.
Start with the free demo class. Just the demo. No commitment, no pressure, no obligation. See if the training quality and the teaching approach resonate with you.
That one demo class was the decision that changed everything for me.
π Register for the free demo: https://www.emexotechnologies.com/courses/devops-training-in-electronic-city-bangalore/
π WhatsApp: +91-9513216462
If this post resonated with you β reblog it for someone else who needs to read it right now. π
And if you have questions about the course, the placement process, or what the day-to-day experience of DevOps Training in Electronic City actually looks like β drop them in the replies. I will answer every single one.
