Next Step in Security: On-Prem vs. Cloud

Question ❓

Cloud Security Engineer vs Network Security Engineer

If you had to make a career shift for the next few years, where would you rather invest your time and energy:

A) Continue developing your career as a Network Engineer specializing in Security
(technologies like Fortinet, Palo Alto, Juniper SRX, Zscaler, Netskope, Cisco Secure, etc.)

OR

B) Shift more toward Cloud engineering and Cloud security
(I guess it would be here, Azure, AWS, Terraform, Azure Firewall, Azure Virtual WAN, AWS Transit Gateway, IAM & Security Groups, Prisma Cloud, etc.)

and why ?

Note: More and more enterprises are shifting to the cloud. ChatGPT advised me to combine both paths, but how would that work, is it worthwhile? I honestly don’t see a scenario that could stop this shift, not even a war or a major crisis, in my humble opinion. I’m seeing fewer and fewer netsec jobs, but hey, maybe it’s just me? What’s your take?

Posted Dec 4, 2025, 10:11 AM UTC

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