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Cloud infrastructure is one of the highest-paid, most in-demand skills in tech — and most people don't know where to start learning it. In 2016, Capital One made a decision that would change everything for them. They had 2,000 applications running on aging servers. The team deploying a new feature waited weeks. A disaster recovery drill took days. So they decided to move everything to AWS. Not just lift-and-shift — a complete rethink of how they built systems. Eight years later, their engineers push code multiple times per day instead of quarterly. Disaster recovery now takes minutes. The group that made it all possible? Cloud infrastructure engineers. That's the job. Not writing apps — building and managing the systems those apps run on. And right now, companies can't hire enough people who know how to do it. Key Takeaways Cloud infrastructure engineers manage the virtual machines, networks, and storage that run every app you use. The average U.S. clo...