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So I’m planning for the future career move, right now I’m mostly overseeing a pentesting group with a little bit of participation during the tests. I’ve coded many projects over my time in many languages, but I really enjoyed doing reverse engineering of malware and various other things as they popped up years ago. I can’t imagine there’s a lot of that available, though. I have a GREM, GPEN, GCIH, and GASF from SANS (I wanted to get more but the company stopped paying for distance travel the last few years). I’m currently 100% remote in the US mid-Southwest and really enjoy it. I’ve got 13 years of a large variety of professional experience in the cybersecurity and general IT world, with a little bit of a dip into OT with some ICS classes. I’m also trained in digital forensics imaging and handling, as I’ve spent some time working for a law enforcement branch (that was a wild ride)
My main question that I have these days is… what would I call myself, professionally? What types of jobs should I be looking to do. I can do management and leadership but I like getting my hands dirty and solving problems.
Thank you.
With that background you can call yourself what you want. Really just depends where you want to go. At most companies you’ll end up either a “something” engineer or on management track depending on which path you wanna go. At 13 years experience though you are somewhere in the realm of Staff/Lead - Principal engineer I would imagine.
Thank you! I guess the realization that I’ve hit the Lead experience area is still coming to me. Impostor syndrome is real.