Pretty skeptical of this given how many recent CS grads there are (and yeah I'm aware of the usual complaints of "but they can't pass a basic coding interview!!" but most of the ones I've seen seem pretty competent)
Amazing what kind of mess fresh grads from top tier schools can make.
At my day job, we actually spend a significant amount of time working with juniors to get them up to speed on deploying to kubernetes (writing manifest/helm files, building cloud-ready configurations, handling autoscaling etc). The company I work at sees a lot of value in investing senior engineer time into teaching new grads the ropes but I feel like a lot of companies would rather just hire people who already know how to do this stuff.
I'm not a junior, maybe intermediate-senior depending on how one sees it, but I'm definitely seeing these requirements in a ton of jobs, but since I've largely been working frontend in the last few teams I've been a part of.
I know that I need to pivot back to more of a full-stack kind of situation, and I'm working on rebuilding those backend skills, but at this point it feels like I've already missed the boat.