Hi there, what's up with modern IT engineer jobs?

- Yes, IT as an industry is undergoing a foundational change.

- You need to be an expert in more than one skill to have a decent job in the next three years.

- Line between ops and Dev is disappearing, slowly but surely.

- Combo of Ops and DEV called as SRE (site reliability engineer) will become the norm.

- Amazon, Microsoft, Google will rule the world with Infrastructure and application offerings making in-house IT redundant and less attractive.

- if you do not know how to code, job prospects look bleak.

- if you are doing only support and working in shifts, solving incidents and working changes, beware your jobs are online.

- if you are building servers only, your jobs are online.

So Skill up and be relevant.

- Learn to code. Start with Python and then Go. These two are essential languages for cloud-native and Infrastructure applications.

- Learn Cloud Platform of your need and choice. Better to have at least two certs AWS/Azure or AWS/GCP.

- Learn Infrastructure as code tool like Terraform. Terraform will be the tool doing all the cloud and container deployments in the future.

- Learn Container orchestration tool like Kubernetes. Kubernetes is the next Linux. So, scale-up and skill.

- As with any platform, learn SQL and one DB like oracle or Postgres or MySQL.

Below skills are non-negotiable.

- Python, Go

- AWS/Azure/GCP any two out of three.

- Terraform

- Kubernetes

- Postgresql/Oracle/Mysql/PL-SQL

Once you acquire above skills, you can to apply for modern era jobs.

In future posts, we will see how to acquire the above skills.

Cloud Engineering and Beyond