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Is a deployment engineer a good start for a recent CS grad? (self.cs_career_questions)

submitted 1 year ago by chrischryse to c/cs_career_questions

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Hi, I recently graduated with a degree in Computer Science. I've been having a difficult time trying to find a job, but I finally found one as a deployment engineer where I would be dealing with shell scripting, AWS, SQL queries, and some C# framework related stuff.

At the end of the day I would like to go into DevOps, cyber security, or programming.

Is this role a good way to get my foot in the door and kickstarting my career and would it help me achieve my goal for any of those roles?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would say as a grad any relevant experience is worthwhile to get off the ground.

Get some time there under your belt as that will cover all the soft skills and play around with side projects on topics you're interested in to move you towards where you want to be.

[–] chrischryse 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool thanks.

I just really want to do whatever I can to get started and don't want to waste my time doing something that won't even help me down the road.

For this job though, I plan on just taking on as many tasks as I can that involve what I mentioned above.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, fair, is all good experience but your first job is really just to get something on your CV that says "Yes, I'm employable. I can work in a professional environment, and I can work well with others".

Beyond that specific skills don't matter as much as your attitude: willingness to learn, demonstrable interest in subject area, open source contributions, e.t.c.

Good luck though, sounds like decent scope there with that role to explore a few different things to help you figure out what you want to specialise in!

[–] chrischryse 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks. And I do have about a years worth of software engineering internship experience (that sadly didn't have any openings) but feel that having an actual career would be 10x better than an internship for experience.