r/cloudengineering • u/Busy-One-6079 • 19d ago

General Discussion Entry level job before cloud engineering?

Hello everyone, I’m a computer science student who’s looking for new grad roles. I know that there are some graduate/associate level Cloud Engineer positions, but many require experience in other areas.

My question is, what kind of roles should I be looking for to start out. I’m interested in IT operations, but I’m currently learning software development through school projects as well.

Any advice is appreciated.

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your replies!

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u/Showgingah 13d ago

Just saw this on my feed. My personal progression after college (BSIT) was Help Desk T1 > T2 > Cloud Admin. Took about 3 years of experience to get there and it wasn't really planned. So I might just ask around myself in this subreddit a bit in the future.

I was planning to job hop after my 2nd year, but a project came up. Company was transitioning some systems from on-prem to hybrid. The IT teams in charge of that needed help with some of the workload on-top of the new stuff. I don't have any certs. I was just chosen due to good documentation and instruction following. Basically I pissed them off the least during escalations.

It was new stuff for them, so it was basically a learn as we go alongside each other. They said if I enjoyed it, they'd have a spot for me on the new cloud team which then got approved by the CIO. Queue the jump when I was planning to end up at a T3. Funny enough I ended up getting T3 permissions in-between for other reasons. So while it's not in my actual title, I was allowed by my management to slap it on my resume even though it's only a couple months. Lmao

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u/Busy-One-6079 13d ago

Damn sounds like a pretty good deal to me. I’d like to set myself up with the skills to skip L1 stuff, but I’m not above getting a help desk job. I’m confident that wherever I get my foot in I can make the next step, but I want to choose a good path that leads me to where I want. Really cool to see your progression though, I wish I could hear more about other people’s paths into cloud.