Network Engineer Skills in 2021 and beyond

Hi all

I was just curious as to what are the new trends for a network engineer now that the world has been more digitally transformed in the last few months..

Aside from

1)VXLAN

2)Public Cloud

3) Automation

How does Kubernetes fit into the realm of a network engineers role mostly because this has normally been what devops seem to do. Is it worth pursuing this or just stick with the 3 listed.

Any help on understanding what other technologies outside of the norm would be good to break into.

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Thanks in advance.