What would you do?

I am at a crossroads on which certification to get.

I want to continue to progress in my career and be knowledgeable in the choice I choose. I work in more of a security capacity of IT and most of my certifications are security centric. I have started to use AWS in my free time and really love the flexibility of the platform. So now I am at a crossroads on which direction I would like to take my career. My ultimate goal is to work from home and for now I am interested in the following two routes.

CEH>OSCP (technical) or CISSP-ISSAP (less-technical)

Or

AWS architect associate/dev ops > AWS architect professional/ dev

I am almost equally interested in each path, but really have no on the job experience with cloud. I know that at some point I will basically have to start from scratch if I go the cloud route so my pay will suffer tremendously during that time.
What would you do if you were interested in both and trying to plan for future growth and transitions in the IT domain?

I currently have only S+/CISSP/SMA forensics/SMEFP forensics

Again, my ultimate goal is working from home/running consulting of some sort…

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Comments

UnixGuy

DDStime wrote: »

.. My ultimate goal is to work from home and for now I am interested in the following two routes.

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This is an odd end goal, but I personally think working from home will become more and more common.

Pick something you like, and get REALLY good at it...then job hunt until you get a working from home gig.

I don't know what's your technical background, but your certs seem more security, so if your background is security already, I'd personally keep working in that field and get really good at it rather than starting from scratch in a new field (AWS).

networker050184

Working from home is really a company culture type deal so that would matter much more than the technology you work with I'd think.

636-555-3226

AWS if you want to live in the clouds, OSCP if you want to live in the weeds.

the choice is yours

techfiend

That's an interesting way of putting it. Flying in the clouds seems much more exciting but the weeds have bass, never underestimate bass.