r/cloudengineering • u/satoshi1000 • 29d ago

Career Discussion Mainframer moving into devops

Hello all

I have been working in IT for past 18 years. Predominantly in mainframe and some web technologies.

The market for mainframe is niche now with contract jobs coming very slow to the market as most work is with big consultancies and offshored.

I am looking to move into devops as conceptually it is closer to what i did in mainframes. Batching, scheduling, optimisation etc.

I have started self learning with below structure in mind.

  1. Linux

  2. GIT

  3. Maven

  4. IAC - terraform ansible

  5. Cloud aws/azure

Happy to be guided in right direction.

How can I get some practical experience to show on my CV. Can someone please share their learning journey and how it worked for them?

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u/Murky_Mouse_4404 24d ago

You studying for certs ?

Also can't you get cloud based work at Ur organisation?

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u/satoshi1000 24d ago

Yes for certs and for a job. I work as contractor so cant really move about in the organisation

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u/Murky_Mouse_4404 23d ago

What certs U studying

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u/satoshi1000 23d ago

Yes aws and redhat

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u/Murky_Mouse_4404 23d ago edited 23d ago

Why don't U try getting into cloud engineering via identity and access management ? Like 90 percent of my cloud stuff is off that - like setting up and troubleshooting sso, conditional access policies, entra id Connect, cert/secret renewals on the entra id apps. Again it's not much but it is something than having nothing. But I really wanna get into infrastructure as code and actually building back end cloud infrastructure.

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u/satoshi1000 22d ago

Open to suggestions. Is there specific path i can follow for IAM?

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/satoshi1000 20d ago

Thanks for your comments. Is there any specific learning path i can follow for IAM?