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If you’re serious about security, look into generative AI security. It’s a whole new field that is emerging. It could be a good place to get into before it gets saturated. I would also suggest tinkering with systems. Check out kubernetes and figure out how to run some services securely like a personal lemmy instance for example. Ansible is another good tech to learn, for automating your systems (updates, security hardening, etc.). Have fun and good luck!
Thanks for your comment. I have Shell, PowerShell, Ansible and Power Automate experience on my resume (weird spot where I was handling a few *nix machines but then they needed someone to help them with SharePoint and now I’m doing both with some Windows Scripting on the side).
A notable omission from my resume is Terraform. I had wanted to learn Terraform and Microsoft AD on the job (Terraform for the *nix side where I’m using Ansible and because I was told I was going to do Windows Admin work too, I was hoping to learn how Windows AD works in the enterprise, but as we know that didn’t work out). I suppose I could learn Terraform at home with a couple of example deployments but how do I put that in my resume?
I also do not see much in the way of security coming my way in this job. Sure I could probably ask them to give me some access to the network to have fun with ACLs and something else but not much more than that, I think. I’m wondering if hobby projects are even worth putting up as “skills”, because sure I can learn them but how do I communicate them to the interviewer through my resume?
Thanks, I’m very new to this field and am struggling on the trivial aspects too. I hope these pains will go away with time.
Cheers
I’m by no means an expert in interviewing but in my experience nobody actually reads the resume they just skim through it checking for keywords. I would think a section for personal growth and development would be relevant on a resume
Thank you. I will try that if I have the space for it