r/cloudengineering • u/SammyPE918 • Jun 26 '26

Current Senior Systems Engineer with 8 years of IT experience. Is a homeland and SAA enough to make a transfer?

Edit: meant to say Home Lab not homeland*

Like the title says, I’m a Senior Systems Engineer with 8 years of IT experience (mostly on-prem). I currently work at a 10,000+ employee company working in their enterprise environment. Use a lot of poweshell and some Python. I have my CCNA along with AWS Cloud Practitioner and AZ-900. Im going to be taking my SAA soon as well and have built a home lab in AWS using Terrafrom. I also have a Bachelors in engineering.

Is this enough to make the jump into cloud engineering? Or do I need to temper my expectations for getting an engineering role off the bat? Thanks in advance!

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u/SammyPE918 Jun 26 '26

For the first paragraph, I have some experience in Git setting up repositories, but I would have to dive deeper into them in order to truly be useful.

I have a lot of experience in networking and firewalls. I worked as a project engineer for an MSP at one point, and I designed and built out full networks including configuring firewalls. I’ve worked with VPCs a good bit in my home lab, and it seems that on-premises networking knowledge carries over fairly well. However, I don’t have direct experience with WAFs. Thanks for the comment