Pritam Roy: From Network Engineer to AWS DevOps & Cloud Engineer

When I started my career in IT, I didn’t begin in the cloud or with automation tools. I began by understanding how systems behave when they fail. I’m Pritam Roy, and over the past 9+ years in IT, my journey has taken me from working in network operations to designing and managing large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure and DevOps pipelines for production environments. Where It Started I began my career in a Network Operations Center, monitoring enterprise MPLS and ILL networks. Working in a 24×7 operations environment taught me something that no certification can teach: Reliability matters more than theory. Seeing outages, latency spikes, and configuration issues in real time helped me understand how critical stability, monitoring, and structured processes are in infrastructure engineering. Transitioning to Cloud and DevOps During the pandemic, I used that period to deeply invest in learning AWS, Linux systems, infrastructure automation, and deployment pipelines. Instead of focusing only