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  • shellsharksOPMEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Look at job reqs for roles you plan to target. What are your skill/xp gaps? It’s great you are getting this practical experience in the cloud. Do you have XP with the tools they mention? Do you have security-specific experience? Try some CTFs or other cloud-related security trainings as well.

    • @MigratingtoLemmyEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for your comment. A lot of what I want to say overlaps with the other comment I posted, so I’ll just paste it here:

      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?

      I will sit for the AWS Security Specialist exam by the end of the year. I also plan to sit for the AWS Networking Specialisation exam next year, before I go job-hunting again. I’m just wondering that even if I learn new skills from personal projects, how do I write it in my resume and not make it look like school projects alongside work experience?

      Thank you also for the tip on what different roles want. I haven’t been looking as seriously as I should; I’ll start now. I must add that I can script in Python, which a lot of security roles seem to like.

      Cheers, and thanks again for the tips!