One to one mentorship

Moving from IT support into cloud

You already work in IT. You already learn. What you don’t have is someone who has done the job telling you which parts of your experience count, what to do next, and in what order.

Who this is for

✓Service desk, first line, second and third line support
✓Systems administrators and infrastructure engineers
✓Network engineers and database administrators
✓Application support analysts

People already in a technical role who want to move up or across. Not career changers starting from nothing.

What usually stops people

You don’t know which certification to doThere are dozens and most of them will not move you. Doing the wrong one costs you six months and teaches a hiring manager nothing about you.

Your experience is being read wrongMost people in support have more that transfers into cloud than they realise. It sits in the wrong place on the CV, so nobody sees it.

You have certificates but nothing to showA certification proves you passed an exam. What gets you hired is something you designed yourself and can defend when someone pushes on your decisions.

You’re learning without a directionCourses, videos, labs. Plenty of effort, no plan, and no way to tell whether any of it is taking you closer to the role you want.

How it works

Roadmap sessionOne hour, one to one. We go through your actual background: what already counts for cloud roles, which certifications are worth doing and in what order, and what to build alongside them. You leave with a plan you can act on whether or not we work together after that.

Eight weeks, one to oneIf it makes sense to continue: a 90-minute session with me every week, direct support in between, a project you design and build yourself, and interview preparation on it. Not a course, not a cohort, not recordings.

Who you’d be working with

Anwar Abdi. Senior engineer, working in the field daily. Around ten years of teaching behind it, including at UCL and Oxford, and a decade of one-to-one tutoring alongside that.

Every session is delivered by me. There are no associate coaches, no account managers and no recordings standing in for a conversation.

Learnfinity Ltd
UK registered training provider · UKPRN 10097136
Verifiable on the UK Register of Learning Providers.

What I don’t claim

I don’t guarantee a job or a promotion. I don’t control hiring decisions and I won’t pretend otherwise. Anyone who does is selling you something.

What I guarantee is the work. The sessions happen, the support is there between them, and you finish with something built and a clear idea of where you’re aiming. The rest depends on you doing the work, and that is the honest condition.

Start with the roadmap session

One hour, one to one, on your specific background.

No commitment attached to it. You leave with a plan either way.

Book the roadmap session