Cloud Engineer
Explore how cloud engineers design and operate computing environments that applications can use reliably.
Roles vary across organisations and change over time. Use this profile to identify questions, then investigate current role and course information.
What does this career involve?
Common kinds of work to investigate when learning about this area.
Work you might explore
- Setting up computing, storage and networking services
- Automating repeatable infrastructure changes
- Monitoring availability, cost and performance
- Applying access controls and recovery practices
What skills can help?
- Linux and networking
- Cloud platform concepts
- Automation
- Reliability thinking
Courses to explore
These are possible learning routes, not fixed requirements. Course content and entry conditions vary.
Projects students can try
Small projects can help you test your interest and practise the work behind this career.
Define a simple environment using infrastructure as code
Create monitoring and backup notes for a demo app
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