Zend certified PHP/Magento developer

Why I don’t see any Magento projects in my Magento Cloud account?

I’m a new hired developer for a company that is using Magento CE as their CMS. I’m trying to set up a local development environment and it’s telling me that I have to be authorized user on Magento Cloud account. When I log in to our Magento Cloud Account it doesn’t show any projects in there, though we have 3 websites on Magento. I got a hold of the original developer and he told me that he developed all websites using the free Magento version.

So I have two questions. Is there any way to connect our websites to the Magento Cloud account? And can I have a development environment is using Magento CE?