I want to be a cloud engineer should I get this combination? The Coursera Microsoft cloud it support specialist professional certification, Microsoft Azure administrator cert, learn python, copilot and teraform? I don't want to do much more than that. It does feel like I'll never get around to mastering anything if I keep trying to satisfy all the requirements I see in job posts. I have no prior experience, but did my best to figure out what could get me point a to b hopefully without learning more than I need to. Also hope to find labs to either show on Microsoft learn, GitHub, or ect once I figure out what those even are as well.
Hello. A few thoughts to help you. Learning to become a cloud architect will generally take less time and pay more. But you mentioned cloud engineer and I want to help you. Please note a cloud engineer is not just a person who configures things. They have to performance tune, optimize, troubleshoot and build systems. This takes deep understanding of the technology So you will need to learn the network and the datacenter. Networking is critical - a Cisco certified network associate will be sufficient. Linux is essential- you can get the Linux skills in a Red Hat Certified Engineer You should get the azure solutions architect expert. This is a basic cloud certification- it covers much of what you need at the engineering level. You will also need to have strong knowledge and skills creating bash shell scripts, windows powershell scripts and Python scripts. You will need to have a reasonable understanding of common DevOps tools I would also get some strong training in Terraform. I would also get some hands on skills on Windows servers as you will be installing applications and more on Windows servers You will also need to understand key datacenter concepts like virtual machines, containers and container orchestration (kubetnetes), network storage (block, object and file storage) load balancers and other key datacenter/cloud technologies It’s not enough to know Azure as 89 percent of companies use multiple clouds. So if you learn the datacenter technologies you will be able to work on all clouds as it’s the same technology. If you have these skills you should be able to pass an interview regardless of not having any experience.
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I want to be a cloud engineer should I get this combination? The Coursera Microsoft cloud it support specialist professional certification, Microsoft Azure administrator cert, learn python, copilot and teraform? I don't want to do much more than that. It does feel like I'll never get around to mastering anything if I keep trying to satisfy all the requirements I see in job posts. I have no prior experience, but did my best to figure out what could get me point a to b hopefully without learning more than I need to. Also hope to find labs to either show on Microsoft learn, GitHub, or ect once I figure out what those even are as well.
Hello. A few thoughts to help you.
Learning to become a cloud architect will generally take less time and pay more.
But you mentioned cloud engineer and I want to help you.
Please note a cloud engineer is not just a person who configures things. They have to performance tune, optimize, troubleshoot and build systems. This takes deep understanding of the technology
So you will need to learn the network and the datacenter.
Networking is critical - a Cisco certified network associate will be sufficient.
Linux is essential- you can get the Linux skills in a Red Hat Certified Engineer
You should get the azure solutions architect expert. This is a basic cloud certification- it covers much of what you need at the engineering level.
You will also need to have strong knowledge and skills creating bash shell scripts, windows powershell scripts and Python scripts.
You will need to have a reasonable understanding of common DevOps tools
I would also get some strong training in Terraform.
I would also get some hands on skills on Windows servers as you will be installing applications and more on Windows servers
You will also need to understand key datacenter concepts like virtual machines, containers and container orchestration (kubetnetes), network storage (block, object and file storage) load balancers and other key datacenter/cloud technologies
It’s not enough to know Azure as 89 percent of companies use multiple clouds. So if you learn the datacenter technologies you will be able to work on all clouds as it’s the same technology.
If you have these skills you should be able to pass an interview regardless of not having any experience.