Any recommendations to pivot from consulting for someone with cloud engineering skills ? I know a lot of AWS and Terraform and infrastructure automation and have experience deploying applications to the cloud. My current base is 113K and would like to make the leap for a higher comp with my skill set. TIA!

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Devops/infra engineer if you can code in Python/go. Sales engineer if you want to be client facing and Technical program management to be close to engineering.

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Is comp your only driver? You can achieve higher just by jumping to another b4.

I've found having the consulting soft skills as well as extremely strong hands on engineering can really help push your base higher.

Gotcha. Ya, with that secondary driver I'd say my suggestion won't help you achieve happiness.

In that case I'd say really shore up the engineering items including building out a portfolio of personal projects you can showcase in interviews.

Personally I'd ramp up on coding and get intimately involved with one of the clouds if that's the direction you are looking to move towards.

You mentioned you know a lot of stuff, but the question you may want to ask yourself is how well (depth vs breadth)

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