I took part in a short video about working as a DevOps engineer at Portbase. It was a bit nerve-wracking, because whenever the camera was on, my mind seemed to empty itself of everything I wanted to say.
Apparently, knowing what I do for a living and explaining it to a camera are two separate skills.
What I wanted to get across was how excited I was about the work, and how good the collaboration felt across the organisation.
The film also shows the office, conversations around desks and time at a whiteboard. I like having those parts alongside the interview. There are people around the work, which is easy to lose when describing a job through a list of tools.
I've written separately about giving application teams more control over their own systems. That's where the longer argument about how I want to do this job lives. This video puts some faces and a workplace beside it.
Making it was a lot of fun. I'm glad the finished video has some of that company in it too.