Great read!
In my experience, I started in tech as a junior systems administrator for some applications in a regular size airline, but being an avid learner of coding and of new technologies has enabled me to be taken into consideration for bigger projects and bigger challenges because you can technically understand the concepts and also the basics of what a new infraestructure, service or software can do. Or even have an understanding of why a new paradigm has been developed and why is it used.
Pretty much it gives you a lot of flexibility and enables you to take bigger and bigger challenges, while preparing you to make better decisions, professionally.