[Verse 1] When systems run silent, that's the DevOps way No alarms are screaming, servers don't decay But leadership can't see what isn't breaking down While product teams get demos, we work underground Success is measured by what doesn't appear Empty dashboards mean we're engineering clear But when disaster strikes, we're center stage Every outage puts our work upon the page [Chorus] Skip-level, skip-level, bridge the signal gap Direct reports filter what the C-suite hears Skip-level, skip-level, put us on the map Before the burnout costs us precious years The best work we do is invisible The worst work shows up everywhere Skip-level conversations critical To show them that we're really there [Verse 2] Our manager knows the midnight deploys Platform scaling, infrastructure choice But two levels up they're making budget calls Can't see the foundation before it falls Resource allocation flows from what they know If pipelines look smooth, why add to our flow? The context gets lost through the management chain Until system failure drives everyone insane [Chorus] Skip-level, skip-level, bridge the signal gap Direct reports filter what the C-suite hears Skip-level, skip-level, put us on the map Before the burnout costs us precious years The best work we do is invisible The worst work shows up everywhere Skip-level conversations critical To show them that we're really there [Bridge] Stable deployments don't make headlines Zero downtime gets no praise But when we're understaffed and stretched too thin That's when everything ablaze Soften the message, lose the urgency Leaders can't protect what they can't see [Final Chorus] Skip-level, skip-level, make our value clear Unfiltered signal reaching decision makers Skip-level, skip-level, keep our mission near Before we become organizational breakers The best work we do stays invisible But our impact should be known Skip-level talks make us visible In ways metrics can't be shown [Outro] When nothing's broken, we're the reason why Skip-level helps them understand The infrastructure keeping systems high Needs a leader's steady hand
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