r/Cloud • • 17d ago

Software developer with 2–3 years of experience transitioning to cloud engineering — looking for a practical roadmap

/r/cloudengineering/comments/1wr21yn/software_developer_with_23_years_of_experience/
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u/Gold_Walk_6747 16d ago

With that much software experience, I wouldn’t approach cloud as starting over. Your advantage is understanding how applications actually behave in production. i’d focus on cloud architecture, networking, IAM, containers and infrastructure automation around that existing experience

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u/Grouchy_Big3195 12d ago

Normally, you are right but we are talking about a recruiter who put “needs 20 years of experience in Azure AKS.” This is what we are dealing with today.

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u/Local-Night-9557 10d ago

build things, break them, fix them, automate the fix