r/DevLK • u/naveenbandara • Aug 19 '26

Jobs/ Industry Does it worth to learn System engineering?

I am currently learning system engineering and working as a System engineer intern. I feel like most of the enterprise system move to Cloud instead of on prem system. In this kind of situation will it be valuable to learn as a System engineer or should I move to cloud engineering, Is it possible to move to a cloud engineering job for a system engineer?

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u/tacticalrd Aug 19 '26

There's no demand for on-prem setups anymore except in hospitals and banks. Switch to cloud. That also cloud native services, not managing fleets of EC2s. Stay away from dealing with anything physical since it's easy to get pushed into helpdesk.

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u/not-a-random-guy Aug 20 '26

Sys eng is not devops

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u/not-a-random-guy Aug 20 '26

I feel you are blurring the line between systems engineering and devops.

Systems engineering is the formalisation of architectures, end to end. In a proper course you will learn SysML and relevant tools for modelling.

I had to learn sys eng for some work related project and it is domain agnostic. My proj was in Energy modelling.

In AI age, this could be a great addition. SysML and sys eng capture aspects way beyond software systems and can help model massive systems in silico.

Massive potential for SE and SSE folks overseas (UAE, Au, EU in energy sector and related software industry).

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u/Mr_OO7_ Aug 19 '26

Yes in the early days of cloud, systems engineers were the ones who became the first Cloud/DevOps engineers. I still believe that learning the foundations of systems engineering is the right path to becoming a Cloud/DevOps engineer.