Career ladder
Common Cloud Computing roles and typical compensation bands in India:
- Cloud Engineer — 8-20 LPA
- DevOps Engineer — 9-22 LPA
- Site Reliability Engineer — 12-28 LPA
Foundations
Focus areas for the foundations phase:
- Linux
- Networking
- One cloud
IaC
Focus areas for the iac phase:
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- Containers
Scale
Focus areas for the scale phase:
- Kubernetes
- SRE
- FinOps
Signals recruiters look for
Beyond skills, hiring managers screen for these signals:
- Shipped projects on GitHub / portfolio
- Certifications relevant to the role
- Communication in interviews
- Domain knowledge (industry-specific)
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