cloud engineer

[jhaanurag1411]

How can i start my career as a beginner in cloud field?

[glen_yu · Accepted solution]

Pick 1 or 2 clouds to start -- depending on what your level of experience knowledge is, I would recommend 2 cloud providers.  Learn them in parallel so you can get a better feel for how they are different/same.  If that's too overwhelming, stick with just 1.

Study, take advantage of Qwiklabs and various learning opportunities here to get some hands on practice, and get certified.  Also, take advantage of Google's Free Tier .  It's great for learning and testing stuff with your personal account and will cost you nothing as long as you use it within its (generous) limits.

Apply to (entry-level) cloud engineer jobs.  Know your security/IAM well (regardless of cloud provider), because there's no quicker way to bomb a job interview than to answer the security questions poorly.  Also, try and detect a pattern of tools that you see companies use (you'll probably see a lot of Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, Python perhaps) so make sure you know those popular tools.

Don't get discouraged if you don't get any interviews for a long time, just keep studying and keep applying.  It would also help if you had a GitHub account or something with things you have worked on that you can showcase as well.

Good luck!

[jhaanurag1411]

Any prerequisite required for before  starting this journey?

[glen_yu]

It's your career choice, so make sure it's something you enjoy and have a passion for.  Cloud technologies and products evolve so quickly, so you need to have that passion if you're to continue growing in this field (trust me, there's a lot to learn).

For me, I switched roles and/or companies every ~2 years when I started out and it's mainly because work was getting comfortable and I wanted to challenge myself and work in another industry.  I've worked for government, retail/banking, startups -- each operated at their own speeds and had their own requirements and I learned a lot from each.  I'm not recommended that this is how everyone should do it -- it's just me.  If you feel you're getting the career growth out of your work then I think that's the important part.

[glen_yu]

I would like to add that getting into a larger company/enterprise as a first job might be easier as they usually have large teams and will hire more junior roles, but if you really want to move up, then head to smaller companies because you'll have a lot more opportunities to do new things.  I enjoyed my start-up experience the most as I was able to make more of a difference and implement more tools and tech in 1 year there than I ever would have in the company prior in 2-3 years.

[jhaanurag1411]

I also got a job in a startup.