Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate the cloud systems landscape; understanding what resources are available; utilize IAM (Identity and Access Management) controls allowing systems or people to access cloud environment; optimizing the configuration and performance of existing resources and services, recommending new ones to improve efficiency with minimal interruption.
Cloud Administrators can expect to make an average salary of $90,900 annually (or $94,000 in total compensation package). The highest earners for this role can expect to see around $102,800 annually (or $106,700 in total compensation).
*Current as of December 2022.
Adaptability, Integrity, Initiative, Communication, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Science & Technology, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Teamwork, Detail Orientation, Leadership
Type of project management process where demands and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self- organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers.
Learn with teams and discover project solutions, delivery, and current processes with coaching and supports.
Introduce forecasting and time estimation, earn independence in novice tasks, understand cloud landscape to identify items that need improvement.
Drive change, create additional tasks, scope out and find the correct team members to work with to accomplish the tasks from start to end, familiar and create project plans and possibly, report to leadership strategic ways to improve systems.
Wide range of resources delivered on demand to customers over the Internet managed by cloud computing providers.
Understand and evaluate cloud systems landscape.
Deploy cloud systems and support clients in deploying those resources and services in cloud, expanding cloud systems footprints under direction.
Produce improvements to existing systems and able to estimate/suggest changes to existing cloud systems landscape.
Use of technology that performs tasks with reduced human assistance in order to unite cloud management processes (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).
Learn what the automation work flow is and what it currently does.
Learn how to modify, improve, and/or build automation.
Propose automation solutions to improve the cloud system landscape.
Process of analyzing user requirements and then designing, building, testing, and releasing software application which will satisfy those requirements.
Learn how to build software for client, what their processes are, how they build software there, with coaches or partner with other engineers, define requirements, learning how to translate user needs into software application with coaches and/or partner with other engineers.
Create software on your own, with
with coaches and/or partner with other engineers, drive requirements from user needs, follow software development pipeline (design, build, test, release).
Identify areas that need improvement as the business/customer needs change, create the project management line to support the changes needed from a software perspective.
Uses programming and scripting languages to create automations, integrations, and customizations; Utilizing core coding languages (e.g., Java, C#, Objective C, JavaScript, Swift, Python) on a cloud stack; integrates data storage, libraries, methods, interfaces, data serialization (e.g. YAML, JSON).
Codes simple software & application tasks or routines in support of software & application configuration work. May create simple web pages. Able to create and execute unit tests. Use programming and scripting languages to create automations, integrations, and customizations under supervision.
Developing programs and configurations to be used in production environments. Contributes to research and development processes. Use programming and scripting languages to create automations, integrations, and customizations independently.
Defining and driving forward a standard language and tools for others use it in the same manner.
Understanding and use of DevOps tooling for coding, deploying, and testing (e.g. Jenkins, Chef, Terraform, Ansible).
Learn and practice the DevOps life cycle.
Deploy the full DevOps life cycle.
Discover, plan, and implement the DevOps life cycle.
Understanding and use of software collaborative tooling to accomplish tasks and projects (e.g. GitHub, JIRA, GitLab, BitBucket, Azure DevOps Repos).
Learn the company’s software they use for storing code, how to interact locally and remotely, code versioning, and check-in/ check-out.
Create new repositories, update existing repositories, and automate remote code interactions.
Drive and manage the repository tools of choice, complete code reviews of code submissions, maintain the repository state and resiliency.
To be a Cloud Administrator, you need at least a High School Diploma with an Associate’s Degree or Bachelor of Science typically being preferred depending on company and/or government opportunity. Other preferred and/or required certifications for a Cloud Administrator include: Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner Certification (AWS CPC), AWS Solutions Architect, AWS SysOps, AWS DevOps, Azure Fundamentals (900), Azure AZ-104, Microsoft Azure Administrator, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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