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/eman0821 4d ago

If you don't like coding well good luck. Learn to do your own research as these aren't entry-level. Both require some level of programming especially Cloud Engineering. Everything in Cloud Engineering is done through IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and CI/CD pipelines, no manual mouse clicking through a web ui. Automation is basically the whole job. Python is used a lot in both Security and Cloud. You will be spending a lot of time working with cross functional teams especially Software Engineers. The job difficulty is high because these are high stakes jobs. Cloud Engineers are expected to be on-call when something breaks after hours.

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u/BlushNGlidee 1d ago

What do you mean "no manual mouse clicking"? How else am I supposed to close the 50 StackOverflow tabs I opened to write three lines of Python?

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u/eman0821 1d ago

I'm talking about the cloud provider web portal. There is no mouse clicking through the gui setting up VMs, firewalls, VPCs. That's all done through IaC and CI/CD pipelines.