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Cloud hands down. RPA is short term and essentially xls macros on speed. I don’t get why so many people are fascinated by RPA which is going to be commoditized soon.
I'd go cloud - hot growth area. RPA in general is rather easy and a subset of the broader automation skillset (unless you are taking in AI etc under the rpa term instead of just meaning traditional RPA such as process and browser automation via blue prism/ui path)
With cloud, you still use your automation mindset for infra automation etc.
You at USDC?
There’s a group within Cloud Engineering that’s known as Cloud Strategy I believe. You can try to get on one of those projects
I am afraid of being stuck just doing cloud infrastructure, and with automation I am afraid of further specializing in a path I am unsure of, with fewer exit opportunities. I want to take an MBA in the future, and Cloud Engineering seems to be dealing with some strategy work and seems more business focused, which I can imagine would look good on an application.
Any inputs? Are my assertions correct?
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Cloud. There are so many specialties you could go down and lots of opportunities in different industries.
Joining DCS?
You can also use the cloud to do a lot of automation with server-less functions (Lambda, Azure Functions, automation runbooks, etc).
RPA is not going to last, there’s other technologies available that can wipe out the current partners that aren’t RPA but offer the same level of automation.
So cloud
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Another vote for Cloud. As a cloud architect you’ll get to touch on way more stuff (IoT, SaaS, PaaS, orchestration, automation, DR, migrations, etc etc) that makes you more valuable/marketable. If you went just straight up RPA, it’s possible you may not even get exposure to the other cloud services.
If career ops is what you’re looking for, always go where you can learn the most and be challenged.
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Cloud. And ditto to all of the reasons listed above.
Thank you all for the great replies. It made it easy to sway a decision - I've accepted the internal transfer, and will probably go on the Azure certification path to be a cloud architect this summer.