This app leans a lot more towards engineering but I'm hoping someone on here can offer some insight. I'm an IT infrastructure guy, I mostly work with on-prem servers, storage, and networking but I watch the cloud eat more and more of that market every day so I'm trying to move into a cloud infrastructure role with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. How much experience is necessary to get hired in one of those roles? I'm very proficient at on prem but I haven't deployed a lot of cloud infrastructure in production.
You don’t need a lot of experience they’re hiring like crazy. You know infrastructure which is the main thing, learning to write a cloud formation script to deploy all the necessary infrastructure is much easier then setting everything up physically
Awesome, I hope that bears out. I'm at a data center in Vegas building out a colocation this week and I'll confirm writing a script would be way easier than racking hundreds of pounds of servers
You probably won’t have a problem in switching with this kind of Mindset. Unfortunately, a lot of on-prem guys are just blocking cloud technology instead of embracing it. But you do have to relearn couple of things. For example in cloud you don’t have Routers or Switches to manage. Subnets are connected by default etc. Just go on coursera, whitepapers and the providers docs and start learning. You can pass the exams without attending fancy courses. The certification exams could be used for application for those roles for example, but they are not mandatory. Please bare in mind: it is not all on-Prem or all cloud. It’s more a mix of both.
Agree with everything said. Dual/hybrid cloud engineers are thing although not mentioned in job postings since a good number of companies are in an in between state of on-prem and cloud.
I've been pushing for at least hybrid cloud for my clients for some time now but I get stonewalled by management because selling gear is half their revenue. Coursera is a good idea; I've done some lab projects but something more directed is smart.
Try to do one of the certifications which will give you a confidence and practice few services which are bare minimum and if you are good at what you do, take a weekend and create an account and don’t worry about multi cloud and pick one cloud and repeat your on prem work in aws and see how it works. Create a sample app end to end and make it work. Repeat this for multiple free github projects and this should boost your confidence. More than any of these it is docker and k8s is more important these days
Great suggestion. I've been thinking I need to bone up on containers. Can you recommend a github project that would be good for this?
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Your kind are rare. If you're good at on-prem stuff, you won't have any problem getting in and doing well. Just think of how you would manage the same things, automatically, and on many servers at the same time.
That's very reassuring, thank you!
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