I went from a supermarket floor to a six-figure cloud career.This is the route.
A field guide to breaking into UK cloud engineering, from someone who did it without a tech background and spent 12 years inside PwC, SSE and Nordcloud.
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The certificate was never the thing.
You've been told to just get certified. I've sat on the hiring side at enterprise companies and read those CVs.
The people who get hired can defend a real technical decision under scrutiny. That's learnable, and almost nobody teaches it.
Written for the person I was.
Retail, admin, support desk, accounting. No CS degree, no relevant experience, a full-time job that isn't going anywhere.
I started in a supermarket, spent years in IT support, taught myself cloud around a job, then got the first role.
Inside
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My actual path, including the years I don't put in captions
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What UK cloud roles really pay, junior to contract
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What to learn, in what order, and which certificates earned their place
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The portfolio that gets interviews, and the decisions interviewers probe
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The CV, and what I skipped past when I was reading them
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The interview from the other side of the table
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How long this really takes around a full-time job
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The roadmap
What it won't do.
Get you a job. Nobody can promise that. Make you ready in 30 days. Or tell you to work remotely from abroad on day one, because juniors get hired where they're hireable.
Chris got his interview five months after joining Kloud Skool. Qays got his after three months, and Hashim after one. That's the honest version: interviews you can hold your own in.
About
Twelve years delivering cloud for PwC, SSE and Nordcloud. I hold a BEng in computer networking and no employer ever asked to see it. I teach at Kloud Skool and write this from Cairo.
The route exists. Most people never see it drawn.
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