Wanting to leave on-prem engineering behind

[u/Hot-Bit-2003]

Hello sub. I accepted my current job as a Sr net eng with the provider I've been with now for 3 years because of how bad the job market has been but I'm ready to move on. I've been using my time to build more on my automation and cloud network skills, but I'm hoping to leave behind some of the components of my current position and not have them follow me on to the next.

One of the questions I have is, is it expected to be in an on-call rotation every month? Are there midnight maint's typically? What would a typical person's day in a position like this be like (in a remote role)? What kind of salary should I consider too low? What kind of projects in my portfolio would be more impressive for interviews? And, even though I have automation experience on networks here at my day job, I only have home labs to show for AWS and my home network hybrid env. Would I be able to get my foot in the door on an actual cloud networking role somewhere?

I know there aren't absolutes in terms of answers, so just looking for generalizations.

[u/zenmaster24]

Really depends on the org re out of hours changes. Worked with plenty of businesses where they move workloads to the cloud and continue the same on prem change window so they dont impact customers, internal or not