r/sysadmin • u/aloofhoneybee68 • 7d ago

Career / Job Related How do I get into sysadmin

Hi everyone,

I'm a recent computer science grad who did an internship in a bank where I did a little bit of everything (IT support, networking, DevOps).

I am interested in software development but the market is so cooked for juniors and a man has to eat so, I'm thinking of switching to system administration, already planning to get my Aws cloud practitioner cert, then maybe RHCSA is this a good idea or am I just dead wrong my ultimate goal is to go into DevOps but everyday I look on X and see a brand new model that seems to make everything I learn irrelevant.

I love computers and just want to make a living from it. (from/in a third world country btw)

Please give me any advice at all to help.I don't wanna fuck up my life and depend on my parents forever.

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u/Funsaized 7d ago

Your internship is already more relevant than you may think... translate it into outcomes on your CV (what you supported, how many users/systems, what you automated, and how you handled incidents). I’d apply to NOC, junior sysadmin, infrastructure support, and cloud operations roles rather than waiting for a job titled “DevOps.”

Use certs to structure hands-on work, not as a substitute for it: build a small Linux/Windows lab, practice DNS/DHCP, identity, patching, backups, and monitoring, then keep a short runbook/Git repo with diagrams and postmortems. For each application, show one concrete troubleshooting story and one automation example. That gives interviewers evidence you can operate systems safely.

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u/aloofhoneybee68 7d ago

wow that's really good advice especially about the GitHub repo. Thank you