r/cloudengineering • u/Ill_Spirit3152 • 4d ago

Cloud Engineering vs Cloud Security Engineering — Which One Should I Choose?

I’m deciding between two career paths: Cloud Engineering and Cloud Security Engineering.
I don’t like heavy coding, and I’m not a big fan of very difficult work. I’m more interested in working with systems, infrastructure, networking, and understanding how things work.
Which path would you recommend for someone like me? Which one has less coding, is easier to get into as a beginner, and has better long-term career opportunities?
I’d really appreciate advice from people who work in these fields.

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u/TerraformAndChill 4d ago

I got 6 Juniors on a special project I took, and made them into Cloud Engineers. They had no previous cloud experience but they did have some IT experience. It took them on average, a year to be able to fully provide service to the customers, and with AI, they now don't really need me. See, It's not about the experience, today, it's about "are you capable to stir up confidence in you clients" so they can trust you to keep their infra/business running. I would go Cloud Engineering even though it's harder, because you can always ask Ai for the vulnerabilities and it will help you, but being One stop shop, hand on, for all cloud needs, is the single most important thing you can do, and in 5-10 years time, only these individuals will survive the interrupt Ai is doing to the market. Godspeed and prosper.

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u/Tokyobuilder 4d ago

But Ai can help and do work for the cloud engineers as well isn't it? Also wanna know what kind of projects you work on?

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u/Otherwise-Key806 4d ago

Yes, Ai has been a major accelerator in cloud work. I have barely written any code (mainly terraform in aws) for about a year. It helps me architect, develop, deploy and troubleshoot in the cloud, and I can do work about 5-10 times faster. I mainly do landing zones, big migrations and cloud based solutions for enterprise organizations.

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u/Tokyobuilder 4d ago

Sounds interesting let's connect would learn alot from you