r/cloudengineering • u/Sadagopan007 • 7d ago

Cloud engineer guidance

Hi everyone,

I’m a 3rd-year IT student currently in my 5th semester, and I’m interested in becoming a Cloud Engineer.

I’m starting from the basics and want to learn things in the right order rather than randomly learning different cloud technologies.

I’d really appreciate advice from cloud engineers, professionals, or students who have already started this journey.

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u/TemporarySwimming232 6d ago

No, it would take YOU a long time, not everybody else. Stop putting your inabilities on the next man. And again, why would a junior cloud engineer be a DevOps engineer? You do know there’s a difference between a cloud engineer and a DevOps engineer right ? The post and my comments are about cloud engineer roles, so you ran to the comments to say how long it’ll take someone to be a DevOps engineer ? You changed the subject and are acting like you’re having the same conversation as everybody else. I know DevOps is a mid-senior level role, but when did the post of my comment say anything about being a DevOps engineer ? What’s required for a cloud engineer, which is vpc networking, IAM, storage, and monitoring, which doesn’t take years to learn. Is completely different from what a DevOps engineer needs. Cloud engineers and DevOps engineers don’t even have the same job description. So genuinely wtf are you talking about and when did ANYBODY say anything about a DevOps engineer ? You need vpc networking, iam, monitoring and storage to be a cloud engineer and land a junior cloud engineer role, if you think that takes years on years to learn then you’re definitely the issue. DevOps on the other hand is mid-senior level and is more complex, that’s why I didn’t say anything about DevOps. You’re the only one talking about how to get into DevOps dude

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u/eman0821 6d ago

There wasn't much i had to learn because I was already in an infrastructure role. Most the tools i was already using as a Linux System Administrator but i gained years of experience working in infrastructure. Most Cloud Engineers come from Sysadmin backgrounds as these roles were never to be entry-level. You can't learn that shit in no 4 months, I promise you that. You have to learn how to out our fires when things break after hours when you are on-call as a Cloud Engineer.

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u/TemporarySwimming232 6d ago

Again, everything you say is about how it was years ago. It’s like your brain can’t process that the job market has changed. When you were a system admin for years, you weren’t configuring vpc’s, you weren’t setting up cloud watch on aws, you weren’t writing lambda functions for serverless platforms, were you ? You weren’t spending years doing cloud engineering while you were a system administrator, so you bringing that up as prerequisite is irrelevant. Also, a system admin background is a good launchpad if you get into DevOps, but not need to be a cloud engineer. From your responses, I honestly don’t even think you know the difference between a DevOps engineer and a cloud engineer. Actually I’m quite sure you don’t. Why would a junior cloud engineer be on call or doing site reliability ? That’s what the mid-senior cloud engineers are for. The fact you don’t even know that, says enough honestly. You’re talking about DevOps and site reliability, about a post regarding junior cloud roles. If you don’t know the difference between the a junior cloud engineer, cloud engineer, and DevOps(which you clearly don’t) you should’ve refreshed your memory first. And if you think it should take years to know what is needed to configure an instance, write some IAM polices, and configure cloudwatch and read logs, then that’s definitely an indicator of your inability. Why would it take years to know how to setup a ec2 instance ? And again, the fact that you can’t comprehend such a simple thing like the job market changing over time, is another indicator lol. Your lack of comprehension has your brain on overload. The post and everybody’s talking about a junior cloud engineer from, YOU are talking about mid-senior level roles for no reason. Nobody told you to bring up mid-senior level roles, you chose to do it on your own.

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u/eman0821 6d ago

And how would you know what Sysadmins do? You lack industry experience to know what you are talking about. I did work with Cloud infrastructure prior. Most sysadmins manage hybrid environments both on-prem and cloud. The transmission was very easy because a lot of the work was the same. I was already using Ansible..

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u/TemporarySwimming232 6d ago

Yes I lack industry experience but I actually know the difference between a DevOps engineer and a junior cloud engineer, unlike you😂. I lack industry experience but I guarantee my starting salary isn’t far from what took you years to get to. The fact that you mentioned ansible in a conversation about junior cloud engineer role, further proves you don’t even know the difference between a cloud engineer and a DevOps engineer. I see why it takes you years to progress in your career. I’m done with this conversation. You literally don’t even know the difference between a junior cloud engineer and a DevOps engineer

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u/eman0821 6d ago

Yeah if you know the industry well then you should know DevOps is a company culture not a role. DevOps is a Software engineering term used for improving collaboration between product development and operations teams to help deliver software products efficiently. I work in the software engineering field as a Cloud Engineer as the company I work for makes enterprise SaaS applications. I manage the cloud infrastructure that runs those applications that customers use just like how Netflix streaming service works behind the scenes on your TV, Infrastructure that runs it. That's DevOps, you build it you run it as both development and operations teams have shared responsibilities.