Which is the best long term move: Cognex DevOps, Thomson Reuters/Westlaw SRE, or L3Harris DevOps?

Hey everyone, I dropped out of law school 5 years ago and taught myself programming afterward, mostly C and then JavaScript as well. I also picked up a few Azure cloud certifications and later broke i

Hey everyone, I dropped out of law school 5 years ago and taught myself programming afterward, mostly C and then JavaScript as well. I also picked up a few Azure cloud certifications and later broke into tech as a self-taught developer. I recently finished a remote, part-time B.S. in Computer Science. My first and only role so far was with General Motors, where I was hired as a DevOps engineer working mostly with Azure and Go. In practice, though, I ended up doing a bit of everything, including frontend, backend, embedded, and platform work. I was with them for a little over 4 years. I got laid off in January however and was not getting much, basically any, traction applying to full-stack roles, so I switched to DevOps positions instead. The response has been way better, and since last Friday I’ve gotten 3 offers: * L3Harris (military tech) * Offer: $110k * 100% remote * DevOps * OpenStack, Ceph, on prem cloud, scaling a VM provisioning system used for product development This is basically a military/defense tech infrastructure role * Team size is 3, but growing * Thomson Reuters / Westlaw ( legal tech) * Offer: $130k * 50% remote * SRE * Monitoring stack,Azure cloud, on call, helping scale an AI legal product reliably * Team size is 3, but growing ( same as L3Harris actually) * Cognex (computer vision tech) * Offer: $120k * 100% remote * DevOps * But the actual work sounds more like configuring an outsourced CIAM solution, maintaining a website for license downloads from S3, and coordinating with external consultancies * Team size is basically 1, i.e. I will be replacing 2 guys who decided to leave I’ve never been in a position like this before and honestly have no idea how I should be thinking about this. I never thought I would seriously consider defense, but that role actually sounds pretty cool. It is focused on the communications stack that links weapons systems together, the team seemed very chill, a lot of Warhammer and metal type guys, and it is fully remote. The legal tech company pays the most and would kind of go full circle to my abandoned law path, which makes it feel a little more meaningful than it otherwise would. It is 50 percent remote, and the people seemed a little bland, but fine. The computer vision company is the one I am least excited about. The main positives are that the culture seems easygoing, a bit more employee-friendly, and I could literally walk there even though it is technically fully remote. Other than that, the role feels weak, and my impression was that the place is coasting a bit on an established business. Which one would you take if you were optimizing for long-term career value and not just base salary?