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/eman0821 Cloud Engineer 13d ago

Do you want to be a Cloud Engineering and work on the Ops side or be the middle man team at the intersection as a DevOps Engineer? These are two entirely different roles. Honestly DevOps is not supposed to be a role or a job title, it's really a company culture methodology. DevOps Engineer is the old Anti-pattern topology that's mostly been replaced by Platform Engineering these days.

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u/Katalyst9957 13d ago

Either is fine since the tech and tools overlap

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u/eman0821 Cloud Engineer 13d ago

What do you see your self doing more?

Cloud Engineering: Operations work building and maintaining cloud infrastructure.

Site Reliability Engineering: Engineering proactive solutions to improve reliability of applications and putting out fires as the first responder for incident response meeting SLO/SLAs?

Platform Engineering: More developer like role building internal tools and platforms for software engineers. This enable Software Engineers to deploy their own code to production servers without relying on a seperate DevOps team hense the DevOps Engineer role is acutally going away.

DevOps Engineer: primary focuses on automation and application CI/CD pipeline delivery. Platform Engineering mostly replaced those duties especially in large enterprises.

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u/Katalyst9957 13d ago

Can't say for sure but for now either is fine as mentioned previously - tools and languages overlap.