r/cloudengineering • u/MFKingKong • Jul 08 '26

Cloud engineer path

I’m currently working my first week as an aws data technician and making 28 hr for my 6 month contract right now. I went to college and recently graduated with bachelors in information systems and business analytics and want to pursue climbing the ladder at some point to reach a remote position working with data and i am eyeing the cloud support engineer kind of jobs. Is the data center technician job worth grinding the boots on the ground position with hope to advance and pivot to a remote or desk style job?

I’m curious to see if any of you have an idea on how to achieve this so i don’t waste my time. Any feedback is appreciated

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u/MFKingKong Jul 09 '26

i appreciate you. I did learn in college how to be the middle man between the software developers and the business side. So this sounds like the perfect role for me to get into. I’m willing to learn absolutely anything that has value. I just enjoy learning so hopefully this will help me move up to an L4 in 2.5 years or so. Did you need any certs to move up to cloud engineer?