Need Career Advice: Should I Focus on DSA or DevOps Skills to Reach a 30 LPA Product Company Role?

Hi everyone,

I need some genuine career advice from experienced engineers.

I'm currently looking for a new job after being laid off from my previous company. My long-term goal is to reach a 30 LPA DevOps/Platform Engineer role in a product-based company (preferably Chennai, otherwise Bangalore or Hyderabad) within the next year.

Here's my background:

• B.E. Computer Science (2023)
• Overall IT Experience: ~1 year 2 months
• Cloud & DevOps: 8 months
• Technical Support: 6 months

Current skills:

• AWS
• Terraform
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• Docker
• Azure DevOps
• Git
• Helm
• ArgoCD
• ECS
• Linux (currently strengthening)
• Bash (currently strengthening)

Areas I'm working on:

• Advanced Linux
• Bash scripting
• Terraform coding
• GitHub Actions
• Python for DevOps
• Ansible

My immediate goal is to get a Cloud/DevOps job within the next month. After that, I want to spend the next year preparing for high-paying product companies.

My confusion is:

1. How important is DSA (LeetCode) for DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineer roles in product companies?
2. Should I spend significant time solving LeetCode problems, or should I invest that time in Python, Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and system design?
3. If you were in my position, what roadmap would you follow over the next 12 months to maximize the chances of reaching a 30 LPA DevOps/SRE role?

I'm looking for honest advice from people who have made a similar transition or currently work in product companies.

Thank you!