Cloud roles

Understanding Cloud Computing

Lis Sulmont

Curriculum Manager

Most in-demand skill: cloud computing

Familiar data roles and the cloud

• Data scientist
  • Run computationally expensive analyses on the cloud
• Machine learning scientist
  • Train and deploy machine learning models on the cloud
• Data engineer
  • Build pipelines on the cloud to ingest, transform, and store big data
• Data analyst
  • Access data on the cloud via business intelligence tools

Creation of new cloud roles

• Cloud architect
• Cloud engineer
• DevOps engineer
• Security engineer

Cloud architect

• Solutions architect for the cloud
• Design cloud infrastructure for a given business problem
• Plan the deployment of the infrastructure
• Ensure scalability and optimized for cost

Cloud engineer

• Build, maintain and monitor cloud services
• Migrating operations to the cloud

DevOps engineer

• Software Development + IT Operations
• Infrastructure as code
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the cloud through software development and automation

Security engineer

• Spec security requirements
• Test and assess security of data on the cloud
• Responsible for protecting organization and user data

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Understanding Cloud Computing