Where to retrain from the dying areas of storage and storage systems?

Question

System administration

Good afternoon,
I have been working in the field of data storage and backup systems for 10 years. I worked with products of most well-known vendors, I have some certificates, experience with large foreign customers. There is a rudimentary knowledge of terraform, ABC and a couple of scripting languages.

I understand that every year all this dies - SANs are propped up by clouds, heterogeneous virtualization environments and affordable high-performance ssd; backups also squeeze the clouds and a modern approach to infrastructure in which it is easier to redeploy any node than to restore it.

I still have a couple of years, I think, where can I go with such luggage that in a couple of years I would receive at least $ 1.5-2k so that the family would not die of hunger at all?

Answer 1

So retrain for CEPH, virtualization and clustering! Just 10 years ago they switched to CEPH, now there is half a petabyte of data, and the disks flew out and the nodes - a tenacious reptile :)
All this is distributed both in virtual machines and in iscsi and in nfs ...

Answer 2

Try a couple of options:
1) DevOps
2) Cybersecurity
3) SecOps - like a devops only for security
Go and develop further in system administration, network engineers, and so on.