Your best backend engineer is handling deployments between PRs. Your AWS bill jumped 40% and nobody knows why. The DevOps job req you posted three months ago is still open.
It’s 4pm on a Friday when the Slack message arrives: “Hey, do you have a minute?”
Everyone in tech knows that feeling. You open the message hoping it’s about a project update. It isn’t.
The deploy script hasn’t changed in eight months. Every Friday afternoon, someone on your team runs it by hand, copying the steps from a Notion doc, pasting commands into the terminal, and watching logs scroll by.
