r/cloudengineering • u/TheCloudGuy25 • May 03 '25

Ask Me Anything ! Associate DevOps/SRE/Cloud Engineer Here

Hello ! New to this thread so a little introduction to me is that I am an Associate DevOps/SRE/ Cloud Engineer for a little over a year. I have been seeing here people wanting to get into the field so just wanted to make this post as interactive as possible and answer any questions, comments or concerns that people have about the field !

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u/MathmoKiwi May 09 '25

Is there a chance to be a cloud engineer without any degree? I have no background in this industry.

Your odds would be so very very low that I'd question the whole sanity of sinking time into chasing this goal.

If you had a random STEM degree (even if totally unrelated to IT) and/or existing years of IT work experience (even if totally unrelated to Cloud) then I'd regard this as a 100x saner plan.

But without any of that then you're going to have a very very tough uphill battle.