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Considering a slight change in career (self.ece)

submitted 1 year ago by root to c/ece

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I've been a systems engineer for about 5 years, and while I do appreciate the exposure to a bit more hardware than a pure software engineer role would give me, I still feel like 95% of my job is coding.

I've been considering switching to a DevOps role, and getting more involved with infrastructure.

My only real concern is that if I do this, it may be harder to break back into the engineering side if I ever decide I want to come back.

Does anyone have any experience or advice in this regard? Also, sorry if this isn't the best place to post this; Still trying to find all the new communities here.

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[–] boeman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've done both over my nearly 30 year career. I've now move into an SRE role. It's a role that takes advantage of all my knowledge and allows for a whole lot more learning and improvement of my skills than any software engineering or systems engineering role I've been in before.

[–] root 1 points 1 year ago

I've looked at SRE-ing as a possible choice later on. It definitely seems more in line with the infrastructure/ DevOps side vs Engineering, but almost all have a 24/7 on call rotation (makes sense) which wouldn't work for me right now.