At a crossroads on what to focus in while looking for a new job. Get some certs? Keep studying the networking path or cloud infrastructure path?
So I got laid off from my job back in August. I had a variety of roles I worked in with my previous employer - joined under a rotational program and worked in the Azure environment a lot. Learned PowerShell and used Azure Runbooks, auditing our Azure environment, building out financial reports for Azure costs. I learned a lot through that, but I didn't take the time to get any certs besides AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals). I was on a cloud networking team and touched a lot with Azure networking for three years when I was laid off.
I passed the AZ-700 (Azure Network Engineer) recently, and now I'm studying to get the Security+. The area I live in is heavy with the federal government so they have the DoD 8570 requirement, if I wanted to get an IT job with them or a contractor.
Now I don't know whether to stay down the networking path or cloud path. I don't have the CCNA.... but I guess I should try to go for it too? I understand things like subnetting, BGP, routing, BFD, etc. since it fell into my work with Azure but I don't really want to go into learning the CLI for Cisco switches. Would Network+ be better in this case? Or should I just skip it and learn Terraform to automate the Azure network resource builds?