Path Finder result
Someone mapped their cloud career. Here's what they got.
This is a result from the Cloud Career Path Finder, a three-minute assessment that turns where you are into an ordered route. Read it, then take it yourself, your path may be different.
A cloud career path
Offensive Security (Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing)
The red-team route: find the holes before someone hostile does, with permission and a report.
You think adversarially and you thrive when the day is open-ended. Ethical hacking channels exactly that: authorized, methodical attacks on real systems, finished with a professional report that makes the defense stronger. It rewards curiosity, patience, and the discipline to stay inside the rules of engagement.
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What the role tends to pay
Entry
$85,000
Mid
$152,000
Senior / Lead
$195,000
Educational reference only, not professional, career, or financial advice or a recommendation. Actual pay varies by company, location, and experience.
Compare against 30 roles in the salary explorerYour roadmap, in order
- 01
Networking & security fundamentals
You can't break what you don't understand: protocols, auth, and where trust lives.
- 02
Hands-on labs & CTFs
Legal practice environments: capture-the-flag paths, vulnerable-by-design labs.
- 03
Web & cloud attack techniques
The common classes of weakness, practiced only in authorized environments.
- 04
Professional pentesting
Scoping, rules of engagement, and reports that get findings fixed.
Certifications worth holding: CompTIA Security+ · OSCP (later, with experience)
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Complete a beginner path on a legal capture-the-flag platform and write a professional-style findings report for one machine, impact, evidence, and remediation.
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These results are for education only and are not expert, professional, or career advice. This short assessment, including its temperament reading, cannot capture everything that a real career decision needs: personal introspection, your own interests and circumstances, and honest analysis over time. Treat the result as a starting point for your own research, not a verdict.
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