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.
It definitely will be difficult to come back if you stay away for a while. DeOps is a good choice, though.
Thank you for the reply. Yeah, I could see that I help with interviews and one of the things we look for first is recent experience, but it’s not always a deal breaker
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.
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.
