If I were still writing for Linux Journal (or had an equivalent outlet today), I'd write a long form piece on why years ago, after a successful career as a sysadmin, I pivoted my career over to security. https://s.usenix.org/acton/media/2452/lisa-community-announcement
@kyle as a relative newcomer to (professionally) working in this space almost all of what I do is ultimately security focused. For the systems under my direct responsibility stability and scale are solved problems. Restarting happens when there’s a CVE patch to apply, and that’s pretty much it!