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).
Adaptability, Integrity, Initiative, Communication, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Science & Technology, Problem Solving & Decision Making, Teamwork, Detail Orientation, Leadership
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 tasks from start to end
Create project plans
Report strategic ways to improve systems to leadership
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
Estimate/suggest changes to existing cloud systems landscape
Learn how to modify, improve, and/or build automation
Learn how to build software for client
Understand what client processes are and 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 coaches and/or partner with other engineers
Drive requirements from user needs
Follow software development pipeline (design, build, test, release)
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).
May create simple web pages
Ability to create and execute unit tests
Use programming and scripting languages to create automations, integrations, and customizations under supervision
Develop programs and configurations to be used in production environments
Contribute to research and development processes
Use programming and scripting languages to create automations, integrations, and customizations independently
Deploy the full DevOps life cycle
Create new repositories
Update existing repositories
Automate remote code interactions
Complete code reviews of code submissions
Maintain the repository state and resiliency
The pathway below represents an example career pathway in the ever-changing Digital Innovation Economy.
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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