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Become a software engineer, I was a sysadmin in my early career and I found it wasn't valued all that much by most organizations. The only place that was decent and gave me any autonomy, was the only one where I also wrote software for them.

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Or DevOps?

I am primarily a system administrator (among other roles) and have been looking to make the jump into DevOps for a while. The main issue seems to be that almost no company hires for entry-level or intermediate DevOps positions, only senior with 5+ years experience of very specific tools. My guess is most of those get filled internally as lateral moves from regular developer roles.

Go for consulting/body shops, they're always hungry for people they can pay as juniors while they're sold as seniors.

Some do hire entry level DevOps! There's a big demand for it, from where I'm standing.

Those roles indeed get filled internally by devs, but it's tough since I don't think most devs want them. :p

that's still sysadmin

Yes, but 'modernized' with generally higher salaries.

But also suboptimal work life balance.

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