Your experience in reactor operations and casualty procedures, combined with your understanding of electrical and fluid systems, translates directly to the skills needed to ensure the reliability and uptime of complex systems. Your knowledge of NNPPIS gives you a head start on infrastructure monitoring and data analysis, key aspects of SRE. Start with Kubernetes basics, and you're off to the races.

As a Nuclear Power Technician, you managed complex systems, including the Primary Coolant Chemistry Monitoring System. You can leverage your math, physics, and system modeling skills to build and maintain data pipelines, ensuring data quality and accessibility for analysis. Your experience with NNPPIS also shows a good basis for learning modern data management systems. Consider learning Python pandas and SQL.

Your background in nuclear instrumentation and control, along with your strict adherence to procedural compliance, makes you a strong candidate for security engineering. Your understanding of Reactor Control and Instrumentation Systems (RCIS) translates to securing industrial control systems (ICS) from cyber threats. Your experience in emergency core cooling systems (ECCS) and shutdown cooling systems (SCS) will help ensure high-reliability, safety, and security are designed into a system. Consider learning security fundamentals like network security and cryptography.

With your system modeling and situational awareness skills, you can analyze an organization's computer systems and recommend improvements. Your experience with Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Information System (NNPPIS) will be helpful to analyze the needs and requirements of computer systems. Your ability to understand and predict the behavior of complex systems translates well to designing and implementing efficient IT solutions. Learning IT project management methodologies and cloud computing can help you succeed in this role.