Cloud era: The most sought-after cloud architect

A survey of cloud-related occupations found that cloud architects were the most sought-after.

If you search for "cloud computing" on dice.com, a technology-focused job site, you will see more than 3,800 structures, according to the website's general manager, Alice Hill, which has risen 72% over the past year. Cloud-related job market development speed is irresistible.

In the filtered list, the most sought-after position is the cloud architect. The remaining TOP10 are:

Cloud computing software engineer

Cloud Computing Sales Director

Cloud computing Engineer

Cloud Developers

Cloud system Administrator

Cloud Consultant

Cloud Systems Engineer

Cloud Network Engineer

Cloud Computing Product Manager

Although these "cloud" job titles and job descriptions seem somewhat vague and inaccurate, the title "cloud" is indeed very popular.

Some other traditional jobs like project managers, business analysts, and network architects are also evolving toward cloud-related work.

Micros is a retail technology and service provider whose clients include Cabela, Godiva Chocolate, Ikea, Staples and Starbucks. At their headquarters in Michigan in late September, they released an in-house cloud architect job-seeker who must be very professional in the design and implementation of large-scale distributed systems and must be bullish on the future of cloud computing in online services.

"We expect the architect to bring the company to the clouds era by designing a release system that focuses on automated data collection and analysis, life cycle automation systems, and powerful automated remediation monitoring and alerting systems," the company said.

The job advertisement says that the candidate must have Amazon AWS, SaaS, online SOA (Service oriented Architecture) model experience, good at technology, optimization tradeoffs and cloud model design, strong and mature Java and object-oriented development capabilities, Perl, Python,ruby or other scripting language experience. If you have a large scale Internet Distributed system experience, and have done other PCI compatibility solutions, it would be better to know about distributed databases.

At the same time, a global service organization is also digging people, the target cloud architecture trainer for a large enterprise design built cloud system, has more than 15 years of high-performance database development experience, love large data, java/c++ experts, good at multithreading and analysis, and have a doctorate degree in related disciplines.

The descriptions of these jobs are mostly exaggerated, and they may have to wait a while, "because the whole set of cloud design and implementation issues that are dealt with is a common problem for many companies," says Chris Brenton, cloud security architect for cloud services security.

"Yes, these companies are really looking for the right people, but in a sense they are looking for ways to effectively apply the cloud to the unique internal environment of the enterprise." "Chris Brenton said.

Crossing boundaries

In a recent email to job seekers, dice.com that DevOps's role is like "Brangelina" (a powerful combination of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) because it is widely regarded as a super coupling of IT departments, a combination of developer and system management skills.

On average, there are more than 200 DevOps lists per day on dice.com, including DevOps engineers, potential customers, contractors, and experts. A survey shows that more than 1500 lists require devops experience. Some recruiters say the job is a pain in the neck as it involves a number of quotations, counter-offer and higher salary requirements.

Rick Bauer, a senior employee at the CompTIA Skills Certification Body, is currently studying the IT Job analysis, published late this year or early next year, to show that there are more and more hybrid jobs in the coming cloud era.

Although the relationship between them has not fully developed to the "Brangelina" such a close degree, but Bauer still hope that network operations and server management, network operations and storage management can be closely integrated.

John Reed, senior executive director of Robert Half Marvell, said the IT department was seeking to roll out cloud deployments while also looking for it people with hands-on experience in cloud computing, with a view to concurrently serving as both a business analyst and a project manager.

"Qualified business System analyst candidates should be able to look at the cloud into the IT system, and before that, they must have the experience and analytical ability to understand which parts need to first introduce the cloud to help the company achieve the expected benefits of cloud computing." "said Reed.

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