u/SufficientFee1784

Hey Everyone

Hope you are doing well, I am actually in guidance from the cybersecurity experts of this subreddit, Please help me if you can.

So my actual long-term goal is to become a Cloud Security Engineer, but I'm fully aware that's a senior-level specialization and I need to work my way up to it. I have no formal IT degree or certifications yet, everything I know has been self-taught alongside nearly six years of technical support and community operations work in the Web3/crypto space.

Here's where I currently stand skill-wise:- Linux command-line (file ops, text processing, process management, networking utilities, bash scripting for basic automation)

Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, subnetting/CIDR)

AWS basics (EC2, S3, IAM — self-study via Free Tier; Cloud Practitioner exam in progress)

Web3/blockchain domain knowledge (wallets, transaction debugging, block explorers, on-chain analytics via Arkham and Nansen).

My support background involved issue reproduction, structured bug reporting, escalating to engineering, writing security advisories and onboarding documentation, and responding to phishing/scam incidents in real time — so I'm not completely starting from zero on the security awareness side, but I know that's a long way from actual security engineering.

What I'm trying to figure out:- What entry-level roles should I realistically be targeting right now to start moving toward Cloud Security? (Cloud Support Engineer? SOC Analyst? IT Help Desk? Something else?)

Is there a stepping-stone path that makes sense — e.g., Cloud Support → SOC → Cloud Security, or is there a smarter route?

Which certifications should I prioritize and in what order?

I keep seeing CompTIA Security+, AWS Solutions Architect, and CySA+ mentioned but I'm not sure what sequence makes sense for my specific background?

Is my Web3/blockchain domain knowledge actually useful in this path, or mostly irrelevant to cloud security roles?

Honest and direct answers appreciated — I'd rather hear the hard truth now than spend a year going in the wrong direction.

Hello everyone,

I have spent the past five years building a career in remote community support, complemented by four years of active involvement in cryptocurrency trading and investment. While my experience in the markets is extensive, I am now strategically pivoting toward a more specialized, skill-based career path to ensure long-term financial stability.

Being based in a tier-2 city, I am committed to a remote-first career that allows me to balance my professional growth with my responsibilities toward my family. I am particularly interested in transitioning into roles such as DeFi Researcher, On-Chain Analyst, or Quantitative Researcher.

I am seeking expert perspectives on the following:

Market Viability: Is the demand for these roles sustainable, and what is the typical compensation landscape?

Entry Barrier: Are these positions accessible for those pivoting from a trading background, or do they strictly require mid-to-senior level expertise?

Roadmap: Is a 12-to-24-month preparation window realistic to land a role in this niche?

I value professional human insight over AI-generated advice and would deeply appreciate any guidance on where to focus my learning. Thank you for your time.

Hello everyone,

I have spent the past five years building a career in remote community support, complemented by four years of active involvement in cryptocurrency trading and investment. While my experience in the markets is extensive, I am now strategically pivoting toward a more specialized, skill-based career path to ensure long-term financial stability.

Being based in a tier-2 city, I am committed to a remote-first career that allows me to balance my professional growth with my responsibilities toward my family. I am particularly interested in transitioning into roles such as DeFi Researcher, On-Chain Analyst, or Quantitative Researcher.

I am seeking expert perspectives on the following:

Market Viability: Is the demand for these roles sustainable, and what is the typical compensation landscape?

Entry Barrier: Are these positions accessible for those pivoting from a trading background, or do they strictly require mid-to-senior level expertise?

Roadmap: Is a 12-to-24-month preparation window realistic to land a role in this niche?

I value professional human insight over AI-generated advice and would deeply appreciate any guidance on where to focus my learning. Thank you for your time.

Hello everyone,

I have spent the past five years building a career in remote community support, complemented by four years of active involvement in cryptocurrency trading and investment. While my experience in the markets is extensive, I am now strategically pivoting toward a more specialized, skill-based career path to ensure long-term financial stability.

Being based in a tier-2 city, I am committed to a remote-first career that allows me to balance my professional growth with my responsibilities toward my family. I am particularly interested in transitioning into roles such as DeFi Researcher, On-Chain Analyst, or Quantitative Researcher.

I am seeking expert perspectives on the following:

Market Viability: Is the demand for these roles sustainable, and what is the typical compensation landscape?

Entry Barrier: Are these positions accessible for those pivoting from a trading background, or do they strictly require mid-to-senior level expertise?

Roadmap: Is a 12-to-24-month preparation window realistic to land a role in this niche?

I value professional human insight over AI-generated advice and would deeply appreciate any guidance on where to focus my learning. Thank you for your time.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hi, I have been in the Community support field remotely for almost 3 years. I have worked 4 years in investing and trading crypto but the market is shit now and i want learn a skill so that in future my family don't have any problem from volatility of stock and crypto markets (not married yet) but I want to do something remotely not by going to offices because i live in tier 2 city where are not that much big firms and I don't want to leave my mom and sister alone in this city, I looked into it admin/ support, network engineer, cloud security engineering and I am more interested in cloud, One thing i also want to add that I have experience using Linux and git/github learnt these few months ago and also have basic understanding of DNS, IP, Subnetting, TCP/IP and OSI model, So I wanted to know from the experts of cloud professionals here that what will be the best starting job for a non technical background guy going into cloud? and how long usually it can takes? also if i target for cloud security engineer role in upcoming 4 to 5 years what do you think i can get that role in these years or it will take for me a few more years, any insight and suggestions appropriated and thank you so much guys if you have read till here.

Hey guys, Hope you all are doing well, First of all let me semi-introduce myself I am a non technical guy who is interesting in networking, linux and python as well as cloud like AWZ and Azure, I know linux, networking and git/github basics so that's why i was doing some research to get aa role which i can make my career in and i found cloud security engineer role which i like it and that's why i did some more digging asked claude about it, it gave me a complete roadmap of 18 months where i learn whole cloud security things and be ready for a job but then a IT professional who is on a executive level role in a security company told me that you should't go directly for this cloud security engineering you should first learn networking and general IT things then move to security roles, I know that must have gave me a good advice because if i think from his POV he is right but still i would like to know from you guys, What you guys think about this from your experience, Should i start learning cloud security and is it possible to get a job in a year or two in a EU or US based company i know am being optimistic but i want to know the truth and i also know that ai isn't gonna tell me that so easily that's guys you, I want to know things from your experience just give me advice thinking like I am your brother, If you have read till here then thank you so much guys even if you can't give me advice just pray to Allah for me, Thank you guys looking up for your replies.

Hey guys, Hope you are doing well, I was looking for a new career and then did some research and found out that Cloud security engineer role is quite good in pay and have future as well but I asked about this to claude and it suggesting me to have some certificates like Security+ SY0-701, AWS CLP (CLF-C02), AWS SAA-C03 and AWS SCS-C03, So my question is that should I have these certificates or just ignore what claude is saying? And also, is this a good career?, According to your experience what do you think, Please let me know, Thank you.