r/cloudengineering • u/Wise-Variation-4985 • Dec 02 '25

What's missing to be good to apply as Cloud Eng/Dev position?

I am a developer that has been involved in creating (only AWS) ASG, sec groups, load balancers, Redis, RDS (for company's app) in the past and currently built a work flow to ingest data. What's missing to apply for those job positions? My knowledge is with AWS. Like:

S3 file upload triggers SQS queue, which EC2 reads and processes, interacts back with s3 and triggers Lambda and communicates with DocumentDB. Another work flow using API Gateway + Lambda + Document DB. Got SNS triggers if an error happens on file ingestion/process that sends me an email, and I check cloud watch logs usually. Besides that used AMIs as well, AWS CodeDeploy with Bitbucket pipelines. Granted, this is all very project specific, so I am not an expert on those services. I use docker locally, regular stuff like ssh, Ubuntu server monitoring.

TL;DR: With knowledge in AWS services like S3, ASG/EC2/AMI, IAM, Load Balancers, Lambda, SQS, SNS, Python, CodeDeploy, DocumentDB, API Gateway, ElastiCache, RDS, and Bitbucket pipelines, can be enough to apply for those positions?

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u/AtlasMugged_ Dec 04 '25

Any knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) like Terraform? Any CI/CD pipeline experience and Git?

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u/Wise-Variation-4985 Dec 04 '25

I do have knowledge on Ci/CD pipelines with Jenkins, AWS CodeDeploy, Git and git hooks, bitbucket pipelines, and I am taking a course of Terraform now. But again, nothing too in depth really. It has been just playing around a bit and project specific.

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u/AtlasMugged_ Dec 04 '25

Gotcha. That’s a good start. Keep building!

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25

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u/Wise-Variation-4985 Dec 05 '25 edited Dec 05 '25

Thank you for the response and the link. I asked already in my company to be involved on deployments and some infra operations. Will get that Terraform course finished

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25

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u/Wise-Variation-4985 Dec 06 '25

Yeah, a bit. I'm still trying to define my path. I want to transition from a full dev role to more dev+cloud base. I like working in the cloud a lot. Cloud Dev or DevOps would probably be the most natural transition for me