Updated for 2026

Cloud Engineer Roadmap

Your step-by-step guide to becoming a Cloud Engineer — from Linux basics to multi-cloud architecture.

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1. Foundation (Same as DevOps)

Linux Fundamentals

Bash Scripting

Networking (TCP/IP, DNS)

Git & Version Control

Python / Go

2. Cloud Platform Deep Dive

AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS)

Azure

GCP

Cloud Networking (VPC, Subnets, NAT)

Cloud Storage Types (Block/Object/File)

Cloud Cost Management

SLAs, Quotas & Limits

3. Infrastructure as Code

Terraform (State, Modules, Workspaces)

Pulumi

Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, Vault)

CloudFormation

4. Containers & Orchestration

Docker & Docker Compose

Container Security Best Practices

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

Helm Charts

Kustomize

5. CI/CD & GitOps

GitHub Actions / GitLab CI

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Deployment Strategies

6. Monitoring & Observability

Prometheus + Grafana

CloudWatch

ELK / Loki (Logging)

OpenTelemetry (Tracing)

7. Cloud Security & Compliance

IAM Best Practices & Least Privilege

KMS & Secrets Management

SOC2 / PCI-DSS / ISO 27001

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)

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