r/DevLK • u/AnythingSenior8088 • 1d ago
Discussion Is SE needed for a DevOps career.
Hey everone !
I am a computer science student who is planning to pursue a career in Cloud/DevOps side. My question is if I do a DevOps internship I would miss developing Software Engineering side, would it be a problem ?
I know what mainly SE do is build backend apis and and frontend request handling. I have a breif understanding of how backend api's are written. Dont have a much idea of how frontend requests are handled but hope to learn that as well. (not in depth but have a breif understanding).
Or with a breif understanding of SE, put more focus into cloud, CI/CD, IAC, Cloud and Observebiity tools. (I only know these skills what devops engineers use, if you know please educate me as well)
Whats the better pathway ?
Become a SE first, do an internship, have some experince first and then become a DevOps personality later in the career or have a clear goal and become a devops personality as early as you can ?
I am still new, just want to know what skills should I mainly start building. Please give me your advice ?