It's definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.
I don't see AI being able to setup a whole environment itself.
Creative jobs on the other hand...
It's definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.
I think it's true for the career rather than the job, because it's not hard to find another job that is still paid way better than the average career.
Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.
That's what cloud services are for.
And who sets up those? If sysadmin jobs are killed for on premise at companies at the very least they will be needed for datacenter work.