December 2024
Beginner
3h 25m
English
on-demand course
Breaking Into Cloud Engineering: A Career Roadmap for Absolute Beginners
with Jonah Andersson
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Overview
Whether you're new to tech, a student, or someone already working in IT, there are plenty of reasons to pursue a career in cloud computing. Cloud engineers are among the most in-demand and highly-paid professionals in tech, and becoming increasingly vital to organizations as they adopt new cloud services and move workloads to the cloud. In this course, you will learn what it takes to break into this nearly $700 billion-and-growing industry and start navigating your own path towards a successful cloud career. What does a day in the life of a cloud engineer look like? What are the essential skills one needs, and how do you go about obtaining them? Join author, speaker, and cloud expert Jonah Andersson to explore the role of cloud engineers, along with all of the foundational concepts and skills needed to become one. After this course, you’ll be equipped to build a learning plan and career plan that can help get you started in this lucrative and far-reaching field!
What you’ll learn and how to apply it
By the end of this course, you will:
- Understand the cloud engineering role and the building blocks needed for becoming one.
- Understand the fundamentals of cloud computing, and be able to describe and identify the various responsibilities of a cloud engineer.
- Be able to form a study plan and chart your own path towards a cloud engineering role based on your existing background and experience.
This course is for you because
- You are just getting started in your IT career and want to know what it takes to become a cloud engineer.
- You are exploring your next career move and want to gain insight into the field of cloud computing.
- You are looking to transition from a non-tech role into a tech role, particularly with a cloud emphasis.
- You want to know how your existing skills could transfer into a cloud role and learn about the best approaches for upskilling in the cloud.
Prerequisites
- No prior knowledge is required, but a general understanding of the modern IT industry is helpful
- Access to the course’s GitHub repository
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