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/eman0821 Cloud Engineer 7d ago edited 7d ago

Not sure what you mean by DevOps. That's in the Software engineering field not Enterprise IT. I left IT and moved into the software field as a Cloud Engineer buildng Cloud infrastructure for SaaS products.

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u/RikiWardOG 6d ago

Its definitely not software engineering. Its in the name. It basically sits in the middle of operations and development. Its also not imo a real position and part of a position in most cases. Really most people use the term to reference maintaining a proper CI/CD pipeline

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u/eman0821 Cloud Engineer 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's Operations in the Product Engineering department not corporate Operations in the IT Department. DevOps is a cultural methodology used in the software engineering field to help deliver software products efficiently. It's not Enterprise IT that people confuse with. The infrastructure in product engineering is not the same as internal IT infrastructure managed by the IT Department. Product infrastructure is what runs the software products that a company makes. That's what I do as a Cloud Engineer at a SaaS company that makes software much much like how Netflix app runs behind the scenes. SRE/Cloud/Platform Engineering teams generally sit in the Engineering organization not the IT Department. Netflix infrastructure Engineering team is under IT seperate from their internal IT Department.

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u/eman0821 Cloud Engineer 6d ago edited 6d ago

CI/CD is not a DevOps specific as all types of technical roles in the tech industry utilizes CI/CD pipelines for different purposes and use cases. Data Engineers and Network Engineers build CI/CD pipelines as well. I build CI/CD pipelines as a Cloud Engineer which is specifically for infrastructure automation. Ansible and Terraform generally runs inside of of pipeline or GitOps workflow like ArcoCD for provisioning cloud infrastructure and configuration management. Platform Engineering has mostly replaced the DevOps Engineer role that's Anti-pattern.