From cloud engineer to cloud software developer
13 of the 20 essential skills of a cloud software developer are already essential for a cloud engineer — about 65% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 65%
- of the target job covered
- 20
- essential skills of a cloud software developer
What a cloud software developer does
Cloud software developers create, deploy, and modernize software applications to run on the cloud using microservices, containers, and serverless technologies. They develop scalable and highly available applications using cloud architectures and best practices. They incorporate logging and monitoring into their code and are able to perform root cause analysis on failures.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- automate cloud tasks
- cloud monitoring and reporting
- cloud security and compliance
- cloud technologies
- deploy cloud resource
- design cloud architecture
- design cloud networks
- design database in the cloud
- design for organisational complexity
- develop with cloud services
- ICT system programming
- implement cloud security and compliance
- manage cloud data and storage
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a cloud software developer and not for a cloud engineer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from cloud engineer
1 roles- cloud DevOps engineer15 skills in common
← cloud engineercloud software developer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a cloud software developer?
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