intro from somebody in tech, but eyeing pivot to different tech role

Andréa Michelle

May 22 (edited) in General discussion

Hola 👋,

I found

@Nic M

on YouTube and after hearing him reference this group a few times in his videos, am finally joining up.

I'm currently a support engineer at an infrastructure SaaS and for the most part I've really liked my job. I'm interested in the tech, make comfortable money, love my team, and have good work-life-balance/get to work remote. Living the dream, right?

But lately I've been having a rough time of it (we got bought and waters are a little choppy) and I've been looking at a job change and maybe even a role change (to security engineering).

Something that really caught my eye in one of

@Nic M

's videos was how he distinguished security *ops* roles from security eng roles (screenshot) and how avoiding ops roles is a good way to avoid tough shift work (having worked in a NOC (network operations center)) I believe him!

I'm basically at an impasse between being a support engineer at a new place, going into security engineering (probably application security engineer, though I'm closer to understanding cloud security stuff given my background), or QA engineering (something I know very little about).

One thing I really want in my next job is continue the teamwork vibe I have as a support engineer. There is no stress about taking time off since work is easily traded back and forth. And there is specialization, but no silos. We work as a team every day.

Application security engineering doesn't seem to get as much love as SOC stuff out here, so I'm excited to learn more.

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