I am intersted in joining FAANG as a cloud infrastructure architect such as the ones dealing with AWS/GCP/Azure cloud infrastructure projects for clients. I have over 10 years of traditional private cloud and kubernetes experience with numerous ceryifications. What does FAANG hiring look ehen hiring the cloud architects ? TC: 200k exp: 18 yoe
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Plenty of those kinds of roles at AWS, GCP, Azure. You'll need to check out the roles carefully though to see if they're on presales or postsales (proserv). Here at GCP we have Customer Engineers (sales engineers), Partner Engineers (only works with your system integrators like Accenture, Deloitte etc), and SAs (technical SME on most engagements). I've been seeing a ton of new hires come from Red Hat, VMWare, Oracle, and AWS.
You seem to be a great fit for Solutions Architect positions. There are tons of these positions at every cloud provider in every state. However, for more “product” like work, Redhat, VMware, Rackspace would be better, if not joining the cloud development teams in the cloud provider companies, title may not be architect in that case.
Thanks all. I am in the process of learning aws, azure and gcp on my own. I am wondering how much product specific knowledge one should have I ordered to be considered. Will they hire experienced engineers and teach the product specifics ?
Most FAANG doesnt care about specific platform knowledge, as long as you bring to the table fundamental knowledge on a broad range of technology and can back up your systems design expertise. (SA with FAANG, havent changed my email here yet)
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Having specific platform knowledge helps, more than that knowing concepts, patterns and how to design a solution matters. For example, it’s good to know but not necessary the exact API to queue a message to AWS SQS, but knowing that, queues are used to process messages asynchronously, is important.
UPDATE: please ignore me as per Mr Glass, I have not worked at a cloud provider. Does FANG have architects? I never heard such a thing. As far as I know, there are levels: L5 - senior, L6 - staff at G, FB and Uber. Google and Amazon do have some customer-facing engineering positions, along the lines of partner engineer, when you help clients build on top of the platform. Someone from these companies can chime in with more information.
All the major cloud providers have these roles. And tons of them. And you can find these in almost any city/region that they have customers in.
Thanks, Mr Glass! I learned something new.