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The rise of cloud computing and the requisite skill sets needed for success in modern technology environments have baffled many professionals who want to start their career or switch their career to this promising domain. As more and more enterprises undergo the strategic digital transformation phase to leverage the power of the cloud, the need for cloud professionals both fresh and experienced to extract the best business results grows.
Cloud computing that encapsulates IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a service) and SaaS (Software as a Service) is often considered as one of the most rewarding professions in the IT sector currently as there is a race amongst the giant and the startups alike to gain the maximum churn from their investments into the public cloud, private cloud and the hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Cloud-based offerings have been popular on the IT side of the business, as enterprises purchase services like virtual servers and cloud-based DNS. Cloud Computing is not only restricted to IT teams alone, and finds its applications into Marketing, Sales, Operations and Finance domains. The multi domain applicability of cloud computing has escalated the cloud computing jobs to new heights over the previous years.
Thus, to fit in these jobs available, professionals both fresher and experienced need to update their resume to filter through the numerous keywords and phrases for cloud-computing skills. It is imperative to hold the market ready cloud computing skills to work for a cloud-native company or a traditional IT organization for that interview call.
Here is the essential skill sets and qualifications that ranks high to secure the glittering career into cloud computing-
Cloud computing commands new skill sets that developers should add to their resumes to master the ability to build, deploy, and manage applications quickly in the cloud environment. The last couple of years, has seen great strides in the development and adaptability of programming languages like Ruby, Perl and Python as they rise to gain prominence in the cloud ecosystem. Traditional languages like PHP, Java, and .NET still remain to be popular.
If you are looking to begin a scintillating career, Python is a good starting point to build your cloud programming skills. It is a high-level language and is easy to learn for beginners and experienced professionals alike.
As data becomes the next gen gold-mine, enterprises do not want to miss the bandwagon to gain the maximum returns leveraging their data potential. The importance of data can be ascertained by the fact that as an interconnected world, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is being generated every single day! Thus, professionals/ freshers who come up with the skills to manage, store, and access data will be hugely popular.
These databases will be mostly hosted on cloud platforms, and this is the perfect time to invest to learn a database querying language beginning from SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or Hadoop.
As businesses move further into the cloud, developmental operations or DevOps has become more important. DevOps takes the entire software lifecycle into account, ranging from planning use and maintenance. DevOps is a very popular framework in the cloud computing industry an understanding of how it works will be of great use in the times to come.
In addition to the technical skills discussed above, cloud computing professionals need to have excellent communication skills as they have to work with people from different departments ranging from communication to negotiation to higher management. Management skills can be grouped into Internal communication skills, where professionals have to interact with other departments and External where they have to work with the vendors, with smart negotiation skills.
Last but one of the most important skills is Training's and Certifications, Professionals and freshers alike have to re-skill themselves according to the new technologies, including the essential industry and vendor certifications.
Some certifications include, Cloud Security Alliance's Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK); AWS Certified Solutions Architect; Microsoft Cloud Platform and Infrastructure (MCSE); and the Google Certified Professional Architect.
It is important to note that aspiring cloud professionals should remember that certifications alone would not ensure them career success. Though it is an important part of the resume, and should not be neglected, it is equally important to equip on professional and technical skills as discussed above.
Now that you know where to look for your next job in cloud computing, it's time to start brushing up on skills and apply for that promising cloud computing opportunity!
