r/CUBoulderMSCS • u/Western-Paramedic948 • 1d ago
Advice for branching into software engineering
Hello,
So o got a bachelors in cyber security but didn’t realize the difficulties going into that field wit no prior experience. So I went into a NOC technician role for telecommunications. I have moved to another telecom Lumen operation tech 3 role still doing networking with layer 1-3 Cisco, juniper and Nokia systems with the typical network protocols o spf, bgp, isis etc etc. I’ve been doing those type of job for 6 years now and I’ve decided to branch my IT skills into more a software engineer role - network automation, SRE, Devops. I was hoping to use my job to pay for my schooling and get a masters in computer science so I can branch into these fields. Do you think this program would be beneficial to land that role? Or should I look for other colleges and/or certificate pathways?
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u/EntrepreneurHuge5008 Current Student 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think it's fine for branching into entry-level SWE, just make sure to take the SWE-relevant electives:
Not so much for this, I think your work experience would do the heavy lifting.