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?
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.
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!
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.