Ask HN: How do you manage your IT/DevOps role?

Context: I'm senior mostly-solo IC for a mid-sized SaaS that does DevOps and IT-related tasks. This role is similar to others I've had in the past. It's great because there's lots of flexibility and not much micromanagement. It's challenging because: - I often need to learn and evaluate new products (e.g some SaaS we might want to use). On a related note it's often difficult to get good (sometimes any) support for products we're paying for, so I waste time debugging obscure issues or reading through confusing documentation - I don't really have anyone to delegate to. I could coordinate with managers to negotiate for engineers' time, but this would take almost as long as just doing some of the tasks myself, so I don't do this - Verification is difficult. Infrastructure doesn't have as good testing facilities as "regular" software does, and even when it does that still takes some setup, which must be balanced against everyt