"Cloud engineer" is a broad title, and market value varies widely depending on what you actually work on.
Moving on from an operations-focused background hinges on experience designing infrastructure as code. Whether you have led a build with Terraform or CloudFormation, even on a small scale, changes how you are assessed.
Beyond that, the path splits in two: deepen your technical expertise as an architect, or move into building how systems are run as an SRE or platform engineer. Which you choose changes the skills worth learning now.
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