Hey everyone! I'm feeling really lost with my career path. I started in technical support, monitoring ETL Informatica IICS pipelines, troubleshooting, and handling SQL queries for three years. Then, I moved to an automation team, working on Grafana, Power BI dashboards, RAG agents in Databricks, and automated ticket resolution for about a year and a half. I'm trying to land a data engineer role, but I keep getting rejections, and it's super demotivating. Any advice or guidance would be amazing!

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Yes I understand that Rejections are demotivating but these most of the Rejections are by the System Ats if you have applied on Career Sites and try to find pattern in it that what kind of rejections coming from the system especially Achivement are impressive but we decided to move forward with other candidates or Rejections coming at odd times especially on Sundays or back to back rejections and for your peace of mind and motivation then don't consider these rejections as rejections because they are not like The job position is Closed or Filled,Position on Hold,We have decided not to fill the particular position at this time and where this is mentioned that as per our call and the initial call or Recruiter's Calls not come

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Ok Welcome

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I’m in mix up career too ..5+ yoe

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Which company brother?

I don't know you but Don't feel like this that you are lost I not know much about engineering field and you will land to a Role which you wanted but the Hiring Process is changed now due to Ats(Application Tracking System) and also due to Involvement of some Hiring Managers right from Round One after Corona Virus Pandemic and because of this there is a Significant Reduction in Recruiter's Calls

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And in 2026 it is expected that the much awaited revival of Job Market happen in contrast to what it was witnessed in 2025 and the signs within January 2026 are good as there is a Rise in Walk-in Interviews one of the Effective Strategies from a combination of Walk-In Interviews and Frequent Recruiter's Calls and I hope that these two effective strategies will be used regularly so they provide a balance to current strategy of using Ats(Application Tracking System) Heavily for Shortlisting Profiles.

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And I don't know you but check your approx Ats Resume Score

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Ok but for your Main or General Resume improve it more and as per different job descriptions try to do Minor Truthful Edits and change Resume File Name and see the Ats Resume Score as per different Ats systems but most of the Carrer Sites are managed by outsourced to Workday only and I am not saying that by checking your Resume as per Workday Ats Scanner your application not get rejected but this is atleast what you can do from your side.

And whatever Recruiter's calls come to your way and if not sound like a Rejection then try to follow-up with Recruiter's

You have work experience it is good but what is observed in this Changed Hiring Process is that other factors are playing a important role

Try to improve your Naukri.Com and LinkedIn as out of other factors one important factor is Visibility in this Changed Hiring Process

I think you have progressed very well.
If you think, you have grown technically but could not change the business domain of SRE.

To go into data engineering, you need to see where data can prove value in SRE.. eg. Failure, use of AI.. any regulatory compliance etc. this will open up opportunities .. then you can switch to a business domain that you like

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