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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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[–] 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.