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Hi everyone! I have **2 years of professional experience as a Blockchain Developer** and am considering transitioning into Cloud Engineering. I have basic Linux/networking knowledge, no hands-on cloud experience.

My planned path:

1. Linux, networking and troubleshooting

2. Python, Bash and Git

3. Cloud fundamentals

4. AWS or Azure

5. Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, monitoring and Kubernetes (Any two)

6. Practical projects and a relevant certification

I'd appreciate honest advice:

- What level of job can I realistically target?

- where do i fit in the market trend ?

- What skills are companies actually demanding for junior roles?

- Which certification would give me the biggest advantage?

- What salary and job-search timeline should I expect?

I'm looking for realistic advice from people working in the field. **I'm genuinely confused about whether this is the right move, and even a few honest words of guidance would mean a lot to me.** Thank you! 🙏

Writing a smaller IAM policy is not usually the bit that scares people, removing access from production is.

Configured permissions tell you what can happen. Usage tells you what actually happened, and that feels like the right starting point.

Then add network reachability, resource-side controls and enough business context to recognize monthly, quarterly, DR or incident-only patterns.

The actual question becomes less "can we write least-privilege JSON?" and more "what is actually used, what is reachable, and what can we safely narrow?"

That's why I think a lot of least-privilege projects stall when those signals live in different places rather than because policy syntax is hard.

Strongest counterargument?