Have 5YOE mostly as backend developer, with 3 years IAM team at big company (interviewers tend to ask mostly about this).
Recently got AWS Solutions Architect Professional which was super hard, though IAM was quite a bit easier since I've seen quite a few of the architectures while studying that portion of the exam. Before I got the SAP, I had SAA and many interviews I got were CI/CD roles which I bombed. When I got the SAP, I got a handful of interviews right away, none of which were related to AWS.
I don't really want to get the AWS DevOps Pro cert as I heard they use Cloudformation which most companies don't use. Also don't want to have to renew another cert in 3 years (SAP was the only one I wanted).
Anyways, I...
Have 5YOE mostly as backend developer, with 3 years IAM team at big company (interviewers tend to ask mostly about this).
Recently got AWS Solutions Architect Professional which was super hard, though IAM was quite a bit easier since I've seen quite a few of the architectures while studying that portion of the exam. Before I got the SAP, I had SAA and many interviews I got were CI/CD roles which I bombed. When I got the SAP, I got a handful of interviews right away, none of which were related to AWS.
I don't really want to get the AWS DevOps Pro cert as I heard they use Cloudformation which most companies don't use. Also don't want to have to renew another cert in 3 years (SAP was the only one I wanted).
Anyways, I'm currently doing some open source work for aws-terraform-modules to get familiarized with IaC. Suprisingly, tf seems super simple. Maybe it's the act of deploying resources with no errors which is the key.
So basically, am I on the right track? Should I learn Ansible? Swagger? etc. Did a few personal projects on Github, but I doubt that will wow employers unless I grind out something original.
Here's my resume btw: https://imgur.com/a/Iy2QNv6