u/SoftwareHot8708

I work in DevOps, I have a couple years of experience and have been trying to transition specifically into infrastructure within the finance space.

I left my last longer term 2+ year role back in early 2025 as an Infrastructure Engineer. Since then, I've bounced around quite a bit. A very short time in a senior systems engineer role (team fell apart), took a Support Engineer role for a security/networking product for 6 months.

Semi-recently I managed to get a role doing exactly what I wanted most FinTech/Infra, for a cool company, except it was 3rd shift. I only lasted a couple of months before I was burnt, it really didn't mesh with my health well.

So at this point I no longer have a coherent story or resume, I've bounced around a ton and because of it, I don't know how to even list the experience on resume, so I've just been leaving off the short-term roles, but I need to somehow illustrate I have some experience in Low-latency trading environments, think algo trading. It's pretty niche and even a little would make a huge difference. Breaking into the industry is incredibly hard IME.

I'm happy to answer any questions that might help. Really, I'm hoping to find someone who's seen/helped someone through a roughly similar situation, ideally someone who knows how to position the little FinTech experience I already have somehow, since any exposure is better than none.

I work in DevOps, I have a couple years of experience and have been trying to transition specifically into infrastructure within the finance space.

I left my last longer term 2+ year role back in early 2025 as an Infrastructure Engineer. Since then, I've bounced around quite a bit. A very short time in a senior systems engineer role (team fell apart), took a Support Engineer role for a security/networking product for 6 months.

Semi-recently I managed to get a role doing exactly what I wanted most FinTech/Infra, for a cool company, except it was 3rd shift. I only lasted a couple of months before I was burnt, it really didn't mesh with my health well.

So at this point I no longer have a coherent story or resume, I've bounced around a ton and because of it, I don't know how to even list the experience on resume, so I've just been leaving off the short-term roles, but I need to somehow illustrate I have some experience in Low-latency trading environments, think algo trading. It's pretty niche and even a little would make a huge difference. Breaking into the industry is incredibly hard IME.

I'm happy to answer any questions that might help. Really, I'm hoping to find someone who's seen/helped someone through a roughly similar situation, ideally someone who knows how to position the little FinTech experience I already have somehow, since any exposure is better than none.

I work in DevOps, I have a couple years of experience and have been trying to transition specifically into infrastructure within the finance space.

I left my last longer term 2+ year role back in early 2025. Since then, I've bounced around quite a bit. A very short time in a senior systems engineer role (team fell apart), took a Support Engineer role for a security/networking product for 6 months.

Semi-recently I managed to get a role doing exactly what I wanted most FinTech/Infra, for a cool company, except it was 3rd shift. I only lasted a couple of months before I was burnt, it really didn't mesh with my health well.

So at this point I no longer have a coherent story or resume, I've bounced around a ton and because of it, I don't know how to even list the experience on resume, so I've just been leaving off the short-term roles, but I need to somehow illustrate I have some experience in Low-latency trading environments, think algo trading. It's pretty niche and even a little would make a huge difference. Breaking into the industry is incredibly hard IME.

I'm happy to answer any questions that might help.