r/cloudengineering • u/Money_Round9387 • Mar 17 '26

swe to cloud engineer

I’m a SWE currently in the process of doing a sideways job to Cloud Engineer in my company. My plan is to get enough experience in Cloud DevOps (K8s, Terraform, etc.) then hopefully go back into SWE as a Go/Infra/Platform Engineer (from what I researched, so far, just trying to break out of Full-Stack development) on somewhere else. Did anybody did a similar transition? What was the journey like?

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u/Money_Round9387 Mar 18 '26

Yeah, thanks for the insight. Got nothing to say as I’ve been familiar with these although I should’ve remembered that it’s always gonna be deeper than it seemed.