I was starting as industry-specific, then gradually moved towards general IT so I could acquire more broad skills within dev/ops and then armed with that experience and knowledge came back to industry-specific again. I discovered there is a gap in IT knowledge within my industry - so there aren't many engineers who would posses industry-specific knowledge as well as IT skills (dev/ops + security). And that works pretty well even though there are not that many major players in this sector.
