What does a CloudOps engineer do?
Design and build
CloudOps engineers design, build, and implement cloud-based applications to streamline a company’s technical infrastructure. They may also rearchitect or reengineer on-premise environments to help transition them to the cloud.
Manage
CloudOps engineers manage the delivery, tuning, optimization, and performance of workloads and IT services that run in a cloud environment. These environments can be multi or hybrid, both in the data center and at the edge.
Automate
CloudOps Engineers implement CloudOps tools to automate a broad range of everyday infrastructure management tasks. These tasks include provisioning servers and storage, application testing, monitoring and reporting, application builds, and security event remediation.
Top CloudOps engineering tasks
Process automation
Operations management
Performance optimization
Risk management
Why become a CloudOps engineer?
An ever-growing list of applications and services are moving to the cloud. As workloads continue to migrate from data centers to the cloud, the need for CloudOps engineers will continue to grow.
It might be the role for you if . . .
You enjoy:
- Keeping things organized
- Collaborative problem solving
- Innovative thinking
You excel at:
- Analytical thinking
- Communication
- Attention to detail
Meet a CloudOps engineer
Popular certifications for CloudOps engineers
CCNA certification
The CCNA covers a broad range of fundamentals based on the latest networking technologies, software development skills and job roles. These skills and knowledge can springboard your career aspirations.
DevNet Associate certification
The Cisco Certified DevNet Associate certification opens the door to a career in network automation. It covers implementation of basic network applications using Cisco platforms as a base, and automation across network, security, collaboration, and computing infrastructure.