Tech Giants Scouting For Cloud Computing Specialists

Are you an IT professional with a proven expertise in cloud computing technologies?  If yes, then tech giants like IBM, SAP Labs, Wipro and HP might be looking for you!

Cloud computing has been the hottest buzzword in the tech industry in the last five years. Tech product companies are currently in the phase of aggressively building their cloud solutions and to do this, they are scouting for IT professionals specialising in cloud computing technologies.

A deep dive into TimesJobs.com data highlighted that tech solution providers such as IBM, HP, SAP Labs, Wipro, Cisco, among others, are now specifically demanding such ‘cloud computing specialists’ who can build, test, implement and do the post-delivery support for their cloud solutions.

So if you are an IT professional with sound domain knowledge of cloud computing technologies, this might just be the right time for you to make a move into such a ‘cloud specialist’ role.

Analysis of TimesJobs.com data revealed that there are three core cloud computing centric job profiles that the IT industry is currently demanding.

We bring to you the skills and experience for these profiles:

Developer – Cloud system software

•    The profile calls for BE/BTech professionals with expertise in software development

•    Demand exists within tech companies such as SAP Labs, IBM, Oracle, which are specifically focusing on building cloud computing software

Job role: IT professionals applying for this profile would have to work with other developers and cloud solution product owners to brainstorm, develop and deliver cloud computing software framework.

Experience: 2-4 years in the tech industry.

Skills in demand

•    Excellent knowledge of cloud based frameworks on Platform as a Service (PaaS) infrastructures like Cloud Foundry, Heroku, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Force.com

•    Working know-how of designing and building application extensions in the cloud and Internet of Things (IoT)

•    Excellent programming know-how in JAVA/JavaScript or in other languages, especially framework development

•    Sound knowledge in Object Oriented Programming Principles, Design Patterns and Software Architecture

Cloud systems architect

•    Profile requires expertise in both software and hardware and also in their integration to deliver a complete cloud computing

•    Demand exists within cloud solution providers such as IBM, Intel, Oracle and HP focusing on building complete cloud architecture for its clients

Job role: The IT professionals need to engage with the tech company’s client at a business level, understand their requirement of cloud solutions and ultimately translate it into technology solutions by architecting the complete cloud solution for them.

Experience: More than 5 years of industry experience.

Skills in demand

•    Ability to identify potential problem areas in cloud architecture

•    Expertise to build feasible cloud architecture by estimating cost, implementing, doing system integration and ultimately ensuring its successful working

•    Proven expertise in areas of server, storage, networking and data centre consolidation

•    Hands on experience in the field of virtualisation technologies from vendors such as IBM, VMware, Microsoft and Redhat

Cloud administrator

•    Profile requires IT professionals with proven IT hardware skills

•    Demand exists within tech companies such as CtrlS and Wipro, which are in the business of data centers offering IaaS

Job role: IT professionals would have to lead the management of the entire data center technology infrastructure administration, its maintenance and provisioning infrastructure for different clients.

Experience:  Minimum 2 years of experience in cloud computing environments.

Skills in demand

•    Knowledge of tools and scripts that enable close monitoring of cloud infrastructure

•    Understanding of how to provision required compute infrastructure via infrastructure management portal and maintain billing system

•    Knowledge of tools that enable generation of reports for the infrastructure and capacity management

•    Ability to manage all service level agreements and take lead in vendor management.