Cloud Computing is changing business and IT operating models. This means that basic IT job descriptions will also change. Cloud Architecture and Cloud Security expertise stand out as two prominent roles.
While Cloud Architecture needs to understand enterprise and service–oriented architectures, they must also understand Cloud Computing that encompasses both architectures. Cloud Architects also have to have detailed information on platforms, Infrastructure, and Software as a Service (Paas, IaaS, and SaaS), including the players in the market and the solutions they offer. This means that instead of working with developers and existing IT managers, gradually turning towards Cloud Computing will be the best decision to take on this path.
Cloud Security experts are perhaps the people who will play the most crucial role in the transition to the cloud and will have the most valuable knowledge. Cloud Security professionals must learn to use new security models and required security technology to keep business processes and data transfer between private, public, or hybrid clouds efficient and effective.
The role of the network engineer changes to cloud engineer. Traditional network engineers provide implementation, support, remediation, and operational support for network equipment and communication links with cloud infrastructure. IT managers and employees have solid network hardware and protocol experience at the CCNA level. However, the transition to the cloud requires less brand loyalty and analytical capabilities integrated with this deep technical knowledge. Today’s network engineers–that is, cloud engineers–need a broad understanding of technology and systems, along with augmented capabilities in capacity management, planning, needs forecasting, and trend analysis. In general, cloud and virtualization, virtualized infrastructure, and hosted solutions appear as new areas of interest.
New applications and development systems are also affected by Cloud Computing. Whoever designs and develops applications is now turning to mobile application development for cloud or SaaS. Developing applications for the cloud or directly on the cloud imposes new rules on developers: self–adjusting and self–control applications.
Perl, PHP, Phyton, C programming languages, Oracle, SQL, MySQL, and all other tools and techniques are changed. Software development for the cloud means AJAX, HTML, XML, REST, cloud networking, and operating system APIs. New types of knowledge, capabilities, and capabilities include DevOps, cloud foundations, virtual machines, cloud management tools, orchestration tools, high security, and distributed platform architectures. Software developers are now cloud developers.
And let’s not forget the front line of IT: Support workers in the face–to–face contact with the customer. The original support desk and service support skills and methods are also changing. These essential members of the IT world now have to support those who work remotely, those who work with their own devices in various places, and cloud–based applications with limited control and usage area. These employees now need to integrate with social media support models and have the knowledge required to support a variety of technologies operating in a variety of environments with different configurations, including virtual systems. The key to successful support is improved communication, error resolution, and communication skills. Support resolvers are now cloud support resolvers.
It doesn’t end here. All IT job descriptions are affected by this:
- Project managers turned into cloud project managers
- Service administrators are now cloud services administrators
- System and database administrators are now cloud administrators
Due to cloud technology, IT managers have to deal with technical problems and administrative problems. For example, consider your firm’s recruitment, career development, and advancement processes. Have all your job descriptions been updated and properly rerated? As their managers, have you told your employees that they should turn to these new ways of working and adapt their work patterns to these and that their compensation and supervisory support systems should also keep up with the situation?
Thanks to Cloud Computing, companies that offer cloud platform services have taken over the hardware management side. Services like these have made remote access and growth and scaling much more accessible for companies of all sizes. This development in the cloud and security should go with it; It profoundly affects how we work, how we connect, how we learn, and how we do something online. COVID–19 has accelerated this drastically.
COVID–19 has taught social distancing, but now it’s also necessary to think about network distancing by keeping networks safe and remote. Remote network access is no longer an option but a necessity for employees–finance, software, marketing, etc., where remote work is a natural fit. But there will also be a significant increase in remote control as many companies have to account for the necessary remote access.
