Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Automate provisioning with Terraform and operate containerized workloads.
Cloud Engineers design and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring systems are scalable, secure, cost-optimized, and highly available across one or more cloud platforms.
Cloud Engineers are the backbone of modern IT infrastructure. They work in cloud-first and hybrid organizations across virtually every industry vertical.
Most Cloud Engineers specialize in one primary cloud (usually Azure or AWS) while having working knowledge of others. Multi-cloud skills command higher salaries.
Start with Azure as your primary cloud, add AWS and GCP, then master IaC and containers.
Start here. Azure resource hierarchy, subscriptions, resource groups, IAM, ARM templates, portal navigation, and billing fundamentals.
VMs, App Services, Functions, Blob Storage, Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB — the building blocks of every Azure application environment.
VNets, subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, load balancers, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, DNS, and hybrid connectivity patterns.
Azure AD, RBAC, MFA, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, network security, and compliance frameworks — essential for any production cloud environment.
Expand to AWS: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation, and the key differences from Azure for multi-cloud scenarios.
Add Google Cloud: GCE, GCS, GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, IAM, and GCP-specific networking. Round out your multi-cloud knowledge.
Automate cloud provisioning across Azure, AWS, and GCP with Terraform. Modules, state management, remote backends, and pipeline integration.
Understand containers at a practical level — how cloud-native apps are packaged, how container registries work, and how to manage them on cloud platforms.
Operate Kubernetes clusters on the cloud. Workload management, networking, autoscaling, persistent storage, and cloud-managed Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE) operations.
Monitor cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads. Prometheus metrics, PromQL, Grafana dashboards, and cloud-native alerting patterns.
Provision a production-grade Azure environment with hub-spoke networking, Azure Firewall, Key Vault, AKS cluster, ACR, and Azure Monitor — all with Terraform and RBAC enforced by policy.
Design a landing zone strategy that deploys baseline networking, IAM, and security controls consistently across Azure and AWS using shared Terraform modules and CI/CD pipelines.
Instrument Azure Cost Management and AWS Cost Explorer, build unified cost dashboards in Grafana, and configure budget alerts to detect overruns before they impact projects.