Are you hiring? (only somewhat sarcastic)

I did a 15~ month stint at AWS. Originally I was signed on to be a support engineer for their Linux teams, which sounded great! Absolutely within my skillset and a great way to get to play with new technologies and features at scale that I haven't before (Ansible, etc)

After going through all the hoops I get sidelined into the "Containers" team and have to learn Kubernetes, ECS, Fargate etc all effectively from scratch

It's all miserable. All of it. Massive Rube Goldberg machines of complexity for the sake of complexity that you need a team to decipher, let alone maintain.

Unfortunately it feels like all the Sysadmin jobs have been replaced either by "DevOps" or Cloud Engineers. There's little market left for people who just want to keep boxes inside a datacenter (or on prem) humming along. The ones that do all want that also seem to be all wedded to MSP's unfortunately