Someone who can engineer infrastructure, pipelines and fire fight production issues
is hard to find, but that’s not the point I was making.
My apologies; It is real work; the point I was making is it’s not ML work, any more than writing a yaml file is ML work.
If you want to write yaml files, any number of possibilities exist.
If you want to work with machine learning, then don’t become a data engineer. The skills are, mostly, not related ML, and more closely aligned with SRE / devops.
It’s not infrastructure and helping build models as you mature and advance: it’s almost literally just infrastructure and fire fighting… in my, limited, 3 years of experience as such.
My apologies; It is real work; the point I was making is it’s not ML work, any more than writing a yaml file is ML work.
If you want to write yaml files, any number of possibilities exist.
If you want to work with machine learning, then don’t become a data engineer. The skills are, mostly, not related ML, and more closely aligned with SRE / devops.
It’s not infrastructure and helping build models as you mature and advance: it’s almost literally just infrastructure and fire fighting… in my, limited, 3 years of experience as such.