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/Funshuay 4d ago

"not a big fan of difficult work"... I'm a senior cloud security engineer and no matter what level you want to work with, if you can't do the difficult work you will be out of a job. The "easy" stuff is now covered with AI in my company so mainly the human centric difficult security and architectural stuff left

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u/Ill_Spirit3152 3d ago

Okay thank you so much