Network Engineers are DevOps people too! As a professional services engineer for Puppet, Kris Amundson can help you get there. He has been pushing packets since FastEthernet was true, token ring was in the vocabulary, and SSH access to a Cisco was a big deal. Networks have taken Kris atop 350-foot wind turbines in Saskatchewan, and down to the South Pole Antarctica to help scientists conduct research. No one can hear you scream about 3000ms Internet RTTs when you're at the bottom of the earth with 24-hour darkness and temperatures in the -100s — on a good day.