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> infrastructure, databases, data engineering

I work as a backend dev, without an opportunity to work on these at my current company. How do I learn and showcase these skills effectively. Thanks!

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I highly recommend csprimer for this.

https://csprimer.com/

Or if you want to just use books go with:

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Realistically, you need to bootstrap your experience in these areas. Pick an area to focus on and put your own time into learning it. My rule of thumb is that you need about 100 hours of personal study to get to "smart intern" level in a particular tech skill, given that you're already a professional developer. I typically bootstrap a skill by picking a textbook to work through and combining it with personal projects and adjacent reading as it comes up. Usually after ~100 hours or so you will be able to arrange an internal transfer to work on that stuff in your day job.

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