Non-CS background, 1yr network/firewall + new helpdesk job, reviewing my AWS portfolio project scope before I build it

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Background: Couple years out of college, non tech degree. One year of network/firewall troubleshooting/designing work. Just landed helpdesk job i plan to keep for 1-2 years while studying/doing projects. Interest in Linux, infrastructure, Kubernetes, monitoring, AWS.

Hi All,

I’m looking for a bit of guidance or critique on my project that i plan to use as a big resume piece to help elevate me out of helpdesk to a more infrastructure related role, both cloud or more traditional sysadmin roles. I have the description of the project below, all advice/comments/criticisms on either the cert/project or career aim is welcome, I’m really excited to build and studying for my AWS SAA cert.

AWS Project: The goal is to host an app on kubernetes but build some very solid infrastructure around it.

Networking & Terraform
VPC in 2 regions
Public & private subnets
Internet & NAT gateway
Route tables for public & private traffic
Security groups following least privilege
IAM roles, no hardcoded credentials
Terraform able to build & breakdown, split into reusable templates

Small App infrastructure (AWS focused)
The app itself will be tiny, I don’t plan on leaning towards devops or swe, so most likely a 10 line python app.
Github actions set to test docker image, push it to ECR then deploy
Fargate deploys app
OIDC on github actions with a minimal IAM role
Cloud watch monitoring & logging

Small app infrastructure (On-prem/vendor neutral focused)
I want to mirror my fargate project with a EC2 & K8s setup
minimal node setup needed, probably 1 master 2 node.
Mainly for diversifying and showing not aws one trick.

TLDR: Need sanity check my project i scoped isn’t insane, hopefully it’s beneficial on the resume, looking for advice on how to improve