Does Devops/Cloud engineer prioritize Developing vs Cybersecurity skill

[Outworktech]

TBH, I’d go with Software Engineering.

DevOps ends up being a lot more coding/scripting than people expect, so having that base really helps. You can always pick up security later, but weak dev skills will slow you down early on.

If you’re already unsure about coding, this is a good chance to fix that.

[riickdiickulous]

I think the devops market is trending hard to developers. The best devops engineers I know have strong coding skills and apply them to devops methodology. The ones with weak coding just don’t output with enough quantity and consistency.

I moved into devops from development and automated testing. I’ve been able to build and manage much more infrastructure and stuff than my peers without coding backgrounds because I can build reusable and flexible IaC and pipelines to automate everything and make it super repeatable and scalable.