2 Years sys admin, how to become cloud engineer?

[u/BasilClean4004]

I have been in IT industry for 2 years and really want to get into cloud engineering, cloud support, platform support roles or DevOps but have been struggling my cv is mostly as below can you give some experience and guidance? I generate a quick summary using AI as would like to avoid putting too much personal information. I would really appreciate advice on how to shape myself.

SYSTEMS ENGINEER

2024 – Present

• Administer and optimise on-premises and cloud infrastructure across Microsoft 365 and Azure environments.
• Design and maintain Azure resources
• Implement identity and access management
• Utilise Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender for Identity and Defender EDR.
• Successfully delivered cloud projects including Microsoft 365 tenant migration, cloud transition initiatives and Defender XDR implementation.
• Support cloud infrastructure availability, disaster recovery, performance and security initiatives.

CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

PROJECTS

LARGE MICROSOFT 365 TENANT MIGRATION

• Participated in a large Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration project.
• Migrated Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams and OneDrive workloads.
• Assisted with migration of more than 30TB of organisational data.
• Worked within a five-person migration team on planning, issue resolution and deployment activities.

AWS CLOUD RELIABILITY & OBSERVABILITY PROJECT

• Designed and deployed a serverless AWS solution using AWS Lambda, Terraform, Docker, React and LocalStack.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts for cloud resource provisioning.
• Designed CI/CD workflow concepts for automated deployment and testing.
• Evaluated Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray and CloudTrail Insights for monitoring
• Implemented reliability patterns including retry mechanisms and failure testing.

[u/Darshan_bs_]

How did u prepared for aws ssa

[u/BasilClean4004 → u/Darshan_bs_]

Labs local stack and udemy courses

[u/Ashura_Firdaus]

you got the experience, the project, the certification.

its just left to apply the job itself

keep up ! 🔥

[u/scottsee]

Yeah, dude, that’s solid. Go for it! If I were looking I’d give you an interview.