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Pathfinder

Not sure what kind of cloud engineer
you want to be?

7 real cloud disciplines, explained the way practicing engineers would explain them. Explore the disciplines, compare paths, then take the 10-question assessment to map your natural problem-solving instincts.

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Take the Pathfinder Assessment

10 scenario questions mapping your problem-solving style across 7 cloud disciplines · ~3 mins

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Masterclass Guide: Cloud Career Disciplines Explained

7 Disciplines · Skills · Day-to-Day

A comprehensive walk-through of the modern cloud engineering disciplines, on-call expectations, tooling stacks, and certification blueprints.

The 7 Cloud Disciplines

7 Active Roles

Cloud Engineer

Hands-on building, provisioning, and maintaining core cloud infrastructure.

You enjoy building technical systems, provisioning VPCs, storage, and compute, and getting everything wired cleanly and...

AWS CLI VPC EC2 S3
Recommended Roadmap
Linux & Shell → Networking & VPCs → AWS Core Compute & Storage → IAM & Policies → Terraform Basics → Observability
Target Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator
Deep Dive Video
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Cloud Architect

Big-picture system design, evaluating tradeoffs, and multi-account strategies.

You lean toward high-level design, sizing costs, evaluating tradeoffs (serverless vs containers, multi-region failover),...

Well-Architected draw.io AWS CDK Organizations
Recommended Roadmap
Networking Foundations → AWS Well-Architected Framework → Cost Modeling → System Design & Trade-offs → Multi-Account & SCPs → Disaster Recovery
Target Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Associate → Professional
Deep Dive Video
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DevOps Engineer

Automating delivery pipelines, CI/CD, and fast reliable deployments.

You want to automate everything so no human has to do it twice. You focus on GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, containerization,...

GitHub Actions Terraform Docker CodePipeline
Recommended Roadmap
Linux & Git → Containers & Docker → Terraform & IaC → CI/CD Pipelines → Automated Testing → Release Strategies (Canary/Blue-Green)
Target Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, Terraform Associate
Deep Dive Video
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Platform Engineer

Building internal developer platforms and self-service developer tooling.

You enjoy building tools, developer portals (Backstage), and golden paths that empower application engineering teams to...

Kubernetes Backstage Terraform Crossplane
Recommended Roadmap
Kubernetes Architecture → Internal Developer Portals → Infrastructure as Code → Golden Paths & Templates → API & Tooling Design → Developer Empathy
Target Certifications
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Terraform Associate
Deep Dive Video
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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Production reliability, incident response, SLOs, and root-cause analysis.

You thrive under pressure, diagnosing complex outages, defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and elim...

Prometheus Grafana PagerDuty CloudWatch
Recommended Roadmap
Observability (Metrics, Logs, Traces) → SLOs & Error Budgets → Incident Management & War Rooms → Chaos Engineering → Linux Troubleshooting → Automation & Postmortems
Target Certifications
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA
Deep Dive Video
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Cloud Security Engineer

IAM least privilege, threat modeling, compliance, and cloud defense.

You look at systems through the lens of risk, defense-in-depth, least-privilege IAM boundaries, encryption with KMS, and...

IAM Access Analyzer GuardDuty Security Hub KMS
Recommended Roadmap
IAM & Permission Boundaries → Cloud Network Security & VPCs → Threat Modeling → Encryption & Key Management → Compliance Frameworks (SOC2/HIPAA) → Automated Remediation
Target Certifications
AWS Certified Security - Specialty, CCSP
Deep Dive Video
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Cloud Data Engineer

Data pipelines, stream processing, data lakes, and analytical insights.

You enjoy collecting, transforming, and organizing massive volumes of data using data lakes, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, an...

Kinesis AWS Glue Redshift EMR
Recommended Roadmap
SQL & Python Data Structures → Data Modeling & Warehousing → AWS S3 Data Lakes → Stream Ingestion (Kinesis/Kafka) → ETL Orchestration (Glue/Airflow) → Analytics & Athena
Target Certifications
AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate, Databricks Certified
Deep Dive Video
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