My DevOps world revolves around IaC to support developers and their products. Pipelines, terraform module development and upkeep, security reviews, threat mitigation and static code scanning, keeping all the infrastructure up to date and everything within current and supported software versions. Most of what I do code wise is terraform and python. Operationally, I'm the guy that comes in to RCA all the weird edge cases. That is the most fun part of the job for me, constant dopamine hits in solving issue that have been plaguing others for weeks.

The easiest way to 10x is to work 80 hours per week, but make sure you get paid for 80 hours per week, not just 40. I'm a workaholic, so I've been doing that for years on end.

I work multiple C2C contracts and make sure that the work that I do overlaps heavily between clients. I only take on clients that are all in on terraform and lean heavily on AWS managed services. With those two keystones in place, the value I can provide clients is far in excess of what they normally would get because I get to see it all. I run into an issue at Client A, and I put things in place at Client B to mitigate that issue before it even occurs. The DR solution I design for Client B is mostly copy/paste for Client C with minor adjustments and all the lessons from having just completed a DR failover test for Client A.