u/TheReflexTester

I'm finishing my cloud and network engineering degree soon and I have the option of getting the AWS Cloudops Engineer cert as part of my curriculum, but I can also just go for my school's own equivalent course instead that's apparently not as hard.

I already have the certified developer, previously the solutions architect, completed the cloud resume challenge, and plan to fill out my project portfolio once I've graduated. I also will have 2.5 years of level 1 & 2 support by the time I graduate.

I feel like I've tried everything and nothing works.

I was never given the opportunity to move up at the first company I worked at despite being the employee of the year, and getting through most of my degree and several certifications and being very upfront about wanting to get into cloud roles. I was laid off and I'm in support now again at another company, cause I couldn't get any traction with anything else.

I've rewritten my resume countless times myself, tailored my resume to every job, and had it professionally rewritten.

I've networked in-person and on LinkedIn. From the coffee chats I had, they all told me they just got lucky.

I've done projects and put them on my resume and LinkedIn.

I don't know what to do. I'm finishing my degree soon, so hopefully it gets better then, but the market is terrible.