Job description: "Must be expert in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Ansible, Argo, Python, Helm, Docker, Grafana, Vault, and whatever else we discover next week."
Actual job: "Here's a Jenkins instance from 2013. Don't break it."
The classic bait-and-switch of modern DevOps. They lure you in with promises of cutting-edge infrastructure, then hand you the digital equivalent of a museum artifact held together with duct tape and prayers. Six months in, you're still trying to figure out why production depends on a Perl script written by someone who left during the Obama administration.