Do stuff on your own, go to meet ups on what you're interested in. RHEL is the same as CentOS, download that and download Vagrant. Install CentOS onto a VM, i

Do stuff on your own, go to meet ups on what you're interested in. RHEL is the same as CentOS, download that and download Vagrant. Install CentOS onto a VM, if you don't know something, google it. Go to tech events and meet people, you could get referred to an opening that way. Work at a small company which usually requires many different skills, slide into doing more IT work there.