Want to switch into cloud or devops role. Please guide me.

i am into enterprise networking 1.5 yoe. I want to switch into cloud engineering but my company does not want to release me from my current project. only option left is to switch into different compan

i am into enterprise networking 1.5 yoe. I want to switch into cloud engineering but my company does not want to release me from my current project. only option left is to switch into different company. i have good theoretical cloud knowledge also did some labs in free tier aws account but i feel now this wont give me enough exposure to practical scenarios. how should i manage into those roles. ..?