Career guide
Cloud Engineer
Cloud engineers design, build and run the infrastructure a product lives on — compute, networking, storage and identity, expressed as code. The job sits between software engineering and operations: you write Terraform and pipelines more than you click consoles, and you are judged on uptime, cost and how fast other teams can ship on what you built.
₹20–28L across 1 live listing6 core skillsInterview questions →
What the work actually is
- Writing and reviewing infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Designing VPCs, IAM boundaries and multi-account/landing-zone layouts
- Building CI/CD paths for application teams and hardening them
- Capacity, cost and reliability reviews — rightsizing, budgets, SLOs
The skills that get you hired
Core — expected at interview
AWS or GCP or AzureTerraformLinuxNetworking (VPC, DNS, TLS)CI/CDPython or Go scripting
Differentiators
KubernetesServerless patternsFinOpsMulti-region design
The path
- Cloud/DevOps Engineer0–3 yrsOwn pipelines and IaC modules; learn one cloud deeply, not three shallowly.
- Senior Cloud Engineer3–6 yrsOwn architecture for a product line; lead migrations and incident reviews.
- Staff / Cloud Architect6–10 yrsSet the platform standards other teams build on; cost and security posture.