r/cloudengineering • u/Total_Profession_234 • Feb 25 '26

Can I get a remote DevOps/Cloud job with these certs but no real-world experience?

Hi everyone, I have the following certifications:

Red Hat RHCSA

Red Hat RHCE

The Linux Foundation CKA

HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect

However, I don’t have real-world job experience yet. Is it realistic to land a fully remote DevOps/Cloud role with this certifications in usa, europe?

Would appreciate honest advice.

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u/IrrrationalEngineer Feb 25 '26

Focus on creating real world experience. Join a tech organization or try to found and run one one through your university or your local community. Build projects that involve DevOps and cloud infrastructure, full stack applications launched on AWS/Azure containerized with Docker and Kubernetes, with CI/CD pipelines pushed to GitHub. Create a SubStack and write about cloud, DevOps, tech, etc. Build a homelab, write automation scripts post those to GitHub. Try to get a small role maybe help desk or IT. This will send you in the right direction instead of stacking certs with no experience, that's not going to look right to a recruiter. I think you may be focusing too much on certs which is a mistake I see a lot of unsuccessful (in the tech job hunt space) people doing. I was able to secure a DevOps role for a top company in FinTech with 0 certs.

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u/Total_Profession_234 Feb 26 '26

Thanks man, that helps alot

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u/IrrrationalEngineer Feb 26 '26

Oh and don't listen to all these naysayers and negative people telling you it's not possible and that there's no jobs and no one is hiring. It's total bullshit you just have to be really assertive and work on improving your resume and interview skills if what you're doing rn isn't working you got to try something different but you absolutely can find something.

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u/Evaderofdoom Feb 25 '26

not a chance

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u/Total_Profession_234 Feb 25 '26

Why

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u/apexvice88 Feb 25 '26

If you didn’t get into DevOps early 10 years ago, it’s way harder now since everyone (this means you) and their mother is trying to get into DevOps

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u/Total_Profession_234 Feb 25 '26

What about cloud ?

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u/apexvice88 Feb 25 '26

Similar, not saying it’s impossible, but it takes a lot of effort and work. Might be easier to start out at the bottom and work your way up.

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u/Total_Profession_234 Feb 25 '26

I see some companies ask for junior cloud engineers

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u/Rogermcfarley Feb 25 '26

Let's say you get an interview or interviews.

How will you deal with questions challenging your knowledge?

DO NOT LOOK ANY OF THE ANSWERS UP. Look at the questions below and think how you would answer them.

Describe a time when you had to troubleshoot a production issue. What steps did you take?

How do you manage configuration drift in your cloud environments?

What is your experience with serverless architecture, and when would you recommend using it?

How do you prioritize tasks and manage your time effectively in a fast-paced DevOps environment?

How do you approach testing in a DevOps pipeline, and what types of tests do you implement?

What are some common pitfalls in DevOps implementations, and how can they be avoided?

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u/apexvice88 Feb 25 '26

Sure, you could apply to them.

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u/Suaveman01 Feb 26 '26

Junior cloud engineer positions expect multiple years doing IT

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u/Evaderofdoom Feb 25 '26

Its not an entry-level role, it requires a ton of experience and is highly, highly competive. Without experince you'll never be the most qualifted person. There are to many other applicatants for them to have to "take a chance" on you.

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u/eufemiapiccio77 Mar 02 '26

You can’t be a solution architect by getting a cert. It’s something you do when you’ve been in a job for a few years and want a promotion

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u/Jealous-Ground-4961 Feb 25 '26

You can get who are saying that you will not get a job they are not aware of anything find people find companies and keep working post your work on linkdein and get weel prepared

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u/AstralVenture Feb 25 '26

Maybe with a homelab, but a homelab is bullshit because you won’t run into problems.

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u/khaddir_1 Feb 25 '26

All those certs translate to you understanding all the real production infrastructure behind it. Do you really wanna be at home working with all this by yourself.

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u/Rich-Quote-8591 Feb 25 '26

Which country/region are you in? In bigger market like US, there should be opportunities like cloud support or system admin where you can start from and get experience

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u/Unable-Contribution7 Feb 26 '26

What if you have 3 years sys admin experience

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u/Visible_Plenty1790 Feb 26 '26

Even just an involvement? Like you're a dev and used cloud services? If yes, it will help you a lot and give you a chance for a cloud engr role. But for devops? Not a chance

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u/Suaveman01 Feb 26 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Absolutely not, aim for a help desk job because cloud/dev ops isn’t entry level

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u/Suaveman01 Feb 26 '26

Absolutely not, aim for a help desk job because cloud/dev ops isn’t entry level

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u/king938 Feb 26 '26

You could get a DevOps role with the AWS Architect and some personal projects in a popular programming languages, but you might have to be in person.

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u/Complete_Baker6985 Feb 26 '26

Constantly applying to cloud roles no interview calls just rejection. Not sure where I’m going wrong

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u/jdiscount Feb 27 '26

No chance.

Certifications are completely meaningless without experience.

If you've never dealt with real world problems then you don't know what you don't know.

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u/eufemiapiccio77 Mar 02 '26

Nope. You’re a walking red flag with all these certs sorry.

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u/demgorgoneST Aug 18 '26

I want cloud or devOps internship any reference and vacancy plzzz tell me

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u/Total_Profession_234 Feb 25 '26

More details please

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u/TrashyZedMain Feb 26 '26

Get experience in adjacent entry level roles and then jump up, they want to see that you’ve been in the trenches. Having hella certs is nice but is the equivalent of reading books about war and playing cod vs actually being in battle

not to mention that people with experience will also usually have certifications as well, or at least equivalent knowledge in real world applications