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Is a deployment engineer a good start for a recent CS grad? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by chrischryse@programming.dev to c/cs_career_questions@programming.dev

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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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[–] annoyed_onion@lemmy.world 2 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@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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.