Two weeks into a new job and so far so good. Switching from contracting back to permy wasn’t on the roadmap but a combination of slow contracting market plus a particularly juicy role lured me back to a previous employer.
I’ve seen the writing on the wall for my old role in infrastructure support – it’s slowly morphing into a DevOps coding role, which I don’t find that interesting. I can cobble some PowerShell together when required but generally programming is not something I enjoy, and I don’t personally think DevOps works well in a Windows environment, especially smaller infrastructures of a few hundred servers where they’re all quite different.
So I’ve moved into an area of support I’ve long found to be the most interesting – security. It’s definitely a growing area and will continue to be a focus as hackers get smarter and keep finding ways to break into businesses and steal their data (or encrypt it and hold you to ransom).
My new Cybersecurity Engineer role will require at least a year of fairly intensive skilling up and a fairly daunting certificate to study for (CISSP) but it’ll be worth it in the long run.
The good thing is that it’s given me a new focus and energy to push myself again; in my old role I’d lost most of my enthusiasm and was coasting to retirement. Now I’ve had a minor career pivot it’s given me some fire in the belly and a thirst for study again. Bring it on!
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