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Weekly thread for any and all career, learning and general guidance questions. Thinking of taking a training or going for a cert? Wondering how to level up your career? Wondering what NOT to do? Got other questions? This is the time and place to ask!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I will try that if I have the space for it