Why don’t you build something that uses cloud technologies or other technologies that the roles you want to land are asking for? It will probably take you a year to learn the app_framework/docker/kubernetes/cloud stack of choice, but after a year of playing with it you will probably be more pro efficient than plenty of employed engineers who rely on a devops team.

Have some confidence too. A lot of people are faking it and don’t learn it until they run into the problem. At the end of the day it only matters that you deliver, so deliver on your personal project first.