[uneasy-sausage]

Any recommendations for someone looking to work towards more cloud experience? Study resources? Certs? Lab concepts?

Currently a sys admin in a standard large microsoft server environment with VMware, DHCP, dns and AD as my typical daily tools.

[Rapzid]

Learn to program and get an AWS cert.

Change jobs to a role that will get you the experience you want. This may seem paradoxical, but no training is like on-the-job training. If you search around for a while you'll find somebody who you can convince that you're capable of doing the job.

[fjp]

God damn it takes a long time to get jobs like that but it's SO rewarding. I'm currently in a job that was essentially obtained through "convince someone you can do it". I think I probably viewed 30k job listings on Indeed and LinkedIn & applied to over 100 before I found the one I'm at.

I didn't have the background, experience, or credentials that mean most large places won't even look at your resume, but I found a startup that needed the strange role-straddling niche I was interested in and it's amazing. I like almost every part of my job, and the org is still small enough that I can see my work have a significant impact (good and bad).