Description
The Cloud Technician’s role is to create, provision, scale, monitor and manage, “virtualize,” and secure cloud services to provide the durable infrastructure upon which AI solutions are built. Cloud Technicians will be trained in Microsoft Azure specific and general cloud administrator fundamentals that will prepare them to create, maintain and secure cloud services in various environments.
Core Skills
- cloud infrastructure provisioning
- virtualization and containerization basics
- identity and access management in cloud
- cloud security fundamentals
- infrastructure as code basics
- monitoring and logging in cloud
- backup and recovery in cloud
- cost and resource optimization awareness
- troubleshooting cloud services
- networking in cloud environments
- automation and scripting
- documentation and runbook creation
- ticketing and incident handling
Common Certifications
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Network+
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
Civilian Career Paths
- CLOUD ENGINEERING
- SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION
- IT MANAGEMENT
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