Top In-Demand Cloud Computing Jobs

With the rapid increase in the demand for cloud computing in a very short time, businesses are struggling to find professionals with the right cloud computing skills. If you want to break through in this industry or are looking to make the horizontal move from an on-premises IT role to a cloud administrator, this is a simple blog to give you the fundamental idea in a short amount of time.

Job Roles in the Cloud

Cloud Architect responsibilities

• Overall cloud strategy and is in charge of the entire cloud environment, build blueprint for the whole cloud
• Supervises deployment in the cloud environment, Application architecture, and All aspects of the cloud
• Understands how services are connected and the integration of services
• Understands Amazon CloudWatch and logging
• Understands AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and the security involved 

System administrator responsibilities

• Overall performance of cloud systems
• Managing configurations
• Completing detailed tasks
• Assisting Database Administrators with setting up database servers in the cloud
• Proficient with hands-on tasks and detailed configuration changes
• Understands configuration management
• Proficient with requirement gathering and translating to deployments

Security administrator responsibilities

• Overall integrity, confidentiality, and protection of data and resources in the cloud.
• Investigates when security incidents or concerns are reported
• Puts standards and development processes in place to reduce the number of security incidents
• Defines security requirements for enterprise-level businesses based on their security and regulatory requirements
• Understands security rules and requirements
• Communicates security rules down to engineers and up to decision-makers to understand and address security risk
• Resourceful because it is not possible to memorize all regulatory requirements
• Researches and is resourceful with contacts to determine an answer to address security

DevOps administrator responsibilities

• Optimizes the use of the AWS Cloud
• Managing developers and orchestrating the numerous tools and stages in the pipeline.
• Manages the release cycle to ensure that there is enough pipeline to evaluate changes that need to be made, tested, and pushed to production
• Applies programming scripting languages with proficiency
• Understands and applies QA and testing
• Understands operations and manages developers
• Orchestrates the many tools and stages in the pipeline

On-premises Roles to Cloud Roles

On premises		Cloud
IT solutions architect  issues with hardware, HVAC, or server upgrades		Cloud Architect  cloud technology (assist system administrator with integration)
System administrator install, support, and maintain computers systems and server		AWS System Operations  oversee the server, network, and desktop teams
Network administrator design, install, configure, and maintain LAN and WAN		AWS Security Administrator  oversee the overall integrity, confidentiality, and protection of data and resources in the cloud.
Security administrator install, configure, manage, monitor, and enforce security solutions
Desktop administrator deploy, configure, secure, manage, and monitor devices and applications		DevOps administrator  build and operate fast and scalable workflows (work with engineers and DevOps engineers to create automation solutions)
Database administrator install and maintain the database
Application Development administrator keep the organization’s application running