From cloud software developer to cloud engineer
13 of the 33 essential skills of a cloud engineer are already essential for a cloud software developer — about 39% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 20
- would be new
- 39%
- of the target job covered
- 33
- essential skills of a cloud engineer
What a cloud engineer does
Cloud engineers are responsible for the design, planning, management and maintenance of cloud-based systems. They develop and implement cloud-applications, handle the migration of existing on-premise applications to the cloud, and debug cloud stacks.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- automate cloud tasks
- cloud monitoring and reporting
- cloud security and compliance
- cloud technologies
- deploy cloud resource
- design cloud architecture
- design cloud networks
- design database in the cloud
- design for organisational complexity
- develop with cloud services
- ICT system programming
- implement cloud security and compliance
- manage cloud data and storage
What would be new
20 skillsEssential for a cloud engineer and not for a cloud software developer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- align software with system architectures
- analyse business requirements
- analyse software specifications
- computer programming
- cyber security
- database development tools
- debug software
- develop software prototype
- do cloud refactoring
- ICT system integration
- interpret technical texts
- manage keys for data protection
- operating systems
- plan migration to cloud
- respond to incidents in cloud
- service-oriented modelling
- solve ICT system problems
- systems development life-cycle
- systems theory
- web services
Other moves from cloud software developer
1 roles- cloud DevOps engineer17 skills in common
← cloud software developercloud engineer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a cloud engineer?
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