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AI & Cloud Career

Certifications, salary data, and interview material — what actually moves a cloud or AI career.

Who this is for

Engineers deciding where to spend the next six months of study.

What you should be able to do

Choose a credential path with a defensible return and prepare for the interview behind it.

The delivery flow

The order the work actually happens in. Each step is where a decision gets made and written down, not a chapter heading.

Skills baseline
Target role
Certification choice
Study plan
Portfolio project
Interview prep
Salary benchmark
Negotiation

Reading path

12 published guides on this track. Every one is a live page on this site — nothing here is a placeholder.

Reference implementations

Citadel’s open-source repositories for this track — Terraform modules, MCP servers, and reference architectures you can read, fork, and run. Apache/MIT licensed; check each repository for its terms.

Primary sources

The standards, framework documents, and vendor references this track is built against. Go here when you need the authoritative wording rather than a summary — in a security review or an audit, the source is what counts.

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