r/devops • u/Katalyst9957 • 13d ago

Discussion Want to switch to Cloud/DevOps engineer role

I have around 1.2 years of experience as a software developer. My main work has been in Flutter and React frontend development, along with some exposure to full-stack development during my internship (building internal tools and dashboards). Most of my work has been frontend-heavy, but I’ve also worked with APIs and backend.

I’m now looking to transition into Cloud / DevOps engineering roles.

I currently have learned Linux and it's useful commands and also have limited hands-on experience with cloud platforms and DevOps tools, but I’m actively learning Docker, CI/CD, and AWS fundamentals.

I'd appreciate any advice or guidance on how to approach this transition.

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u/Raja-Karuppasamy 13d ago

Build DevOps skills by deploying your own projects. Take a React app, containerize it, deploy to AWS with Terraform, add CI/CD with GitHub Actions, set up monitoring. This gives you a real portfolio project showing end-to-end ownership. For entry-level DevOps roles, companies want to see you can: write infrastructure code, debug deployments, understand application architecture. Your frontend background helps because you know how apps break. Apply for Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer roles at startups where the lines between dev and ops are blurred.

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u/Katalyst9957 13d ago

Thanks for the advice, will do this :)