I currently work in front end for walmart labs and am interested in gaining backend experience. They primarily use azure services as the backbone of their cloud infra. I have been told by a mentor friend of mine in faang (20 yoe) that azure isn't worth it. Though I disagree considering my specific situation. Curious to hear thoughts here. Is the job market out there for azure certified architects comparable to that of gcp or aws? Once you get certified in one cloud, how much effort do you find it is to transfer that knowledge in learning a different cloud. E.x. moving from working In azure to a gcp or aws environment? TC: 167k Yoe: 5
Learning a technology is not what big companies look for in a candidate. Start by learning distributed systems, then see for backend systems are built, service discovery, microservices, etc. Learn things which don't depend on azure, golang, java or any other technologies. After this you will not give a single f**k which cloud provider is doing good in market
I agree with this, I do have a superficial understanding of all of the above and know java from prev exp. So you are saying it does not matter which cloud service I start with to train myself in those methods? Don't companies care about which cloud services you have experience with? Doesn't that also have a significant weight against also knowing those fundamentals you mentioned? I also tend to think they care about that as well no?
Great point!
I find that by learning the principle building blocks of each cloud has kept me up to speed and valuable in the market. If you have an opportunity to learn azure I certainly would. This mapping has helped me: http://www.eventid.net/docs/onprem_to_cloud.asp
I have had to work with all the major players so far and I see azure a lot more this year than in the past. It won’t be a waste of time that is for sure.
Learning Azure is worth it, they are going to overtake AWS soon. Even the pentagon is switching to Azure.