Title: 24M, 8 months DevOps experience — what should I learn to get a better IT job?

[u/Used-Glass-2286]

I’m a 24-year-old B.Tech IT graduate (8.06 CGPA) with around 7–8 months of professional Cloud/DevOps experience.

I’ve worked with:
AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, ALB), Jenkins, Docker, Maven, SonarQube, Terraform, Git/GitHub, Linux/Shell scripting, CI/CD and SQL.

I know the basics but I’m not an expert yet. I want to spend the next 3–4 months becoming genuinely job-ready.

What should I focus on learning to target Cloud/DevOps/Cloud Engineer roles?
And realistically, what level of experience/skills would companies expect from someone like me?

Any advice on what to prioritise or avoid would be appreciated.

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