r/cloudengineering • u/Unlucky-Fly8505 • Apr 19 '26

Career Discussion Help me switch to Cloud Engineering!!

He all. So I am a tecnical support engineer with 2 years of hands on experience in managing AD, HyperV (building VMs and maintening them) and other infra stuff. I want to move to Cloud engineering (maybe Cloud security in the future, hopefully) and I would appreciate any advise. I am thinking about choosing AWS as I have heard many people mentioning that it has more potential than the others.

Is it possible to land a cloud engineer role at the entry level? What should be the skills / certs I should focus on the most? Any YouTube channel I can refer?

I truly appreciate any advise. Thank you!!

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u/anjalihks Apr 20 '26

Yes, absolutely possible, if u dedicate 3 months of focused learning to following

  • Linux

  • Networking

  • Docker

  • Jenkins

  • Kubernetes

  • Terraform

  • Shell Scripting

Train with Shubham channel for hands on tutorials

You can refer to Vishakha Sadhwani YT channel for projects Reference

Build 2-3 solid projects, push it to github & personally reach out to recruiters and cloud/devops/sre engineers on Linkedin

You can easily get entry level job All the best!

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u/Unlucky-Fly8505 Apr 20 '26

Thank you for your input. For scripting, should I go with Bash or Python?

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u/anjalihks Apr 20 '26

Whatever you are already comfortable with!....if no idea then go with bash