Cloud Architect career cloud engineering career,
which is right for me, if you want to know, then this video is for you.
Hi, my name is Michael Gibbs, and I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud architects and go
cloud careers. And we're an organization that's really dedicated towards building the most high
performance cloud computing, and networking careers. Personally, I've been working in
technology for over 25 years now. And I've been helping others get their first tech job or get
promoted in tech for over two decades. And I want to help you build your best cloud architect cover
or cloud engineering career, whichever is best for you. So let's talk about these two roles and help
you find out the best one for you. But let's first define the role. The Cloud Architect is
a systems designer. It's a hybrid between a business executive and a technology
professional. By comparison, the cloud engineer is a deeply, deeply, deeply technical individual,
one who builds the solutions that were designed by the cloud architect or the solution architect.
And I want you to think of it this way, the Cloud Architect is very similar to a building architect
who asks the customer about their goals, the desires for what the building could look like,
the desires for how tall the building is going to be, or how strong the building needs to be,
or how many people need to be in the building. That's the architect. And then, of course,
the architect designs, the blueprints for the building. And then someone hires a construction
crew that actually builds it, whether it's laying bricks with cement, whether it's steel,
whether it's hammering nails, whether it's glass, the construction crew builds it,
the architect designs, and guess what, in the cloud, the cloud architect designs, the solution,
and the cloud engineer builds the solution. So effect is just like the Cloud Architect being the
building architect, and the cloud engineer, being a highly capable, highly educated,
highly technical construction crew. So that's the two things and these are two great careers,
cloud architecture, career solution, architecture, careers are fantastic. But so are cloud
engineering careers, it's a matter of finding the one that's right for you. So you really have to
look and think about what people do in each job to figure out what's gonna make you happy. See,
the Cloud Architect is going to be meeting with clients. So this is a deeply customer facing role,
everywhere from the engineers all the way to the CEO. That's part of the cloud architects
role. We're going to be asking questions, we're going to be giving presentations, we're going
to be doing a lot of writing, responding to RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, presenting at conferences, negotiating
and selling. That's what we do. So the critical Cloud Architect skills are system design, along
with lots of business acumen, CXO, relevancy, executive writing, executive communication. Now,
the cloud engineer, remember, there are systems builder. So they're going to be behind their desk,
they're going to be staring at the screen doing deeply technical things. So the cloud engineer
will be building things, whether it be with a management console, the command line interface,
or API calls, the cloud engineer is going to do this, the cloud engineer is going to be doing some
automation. So they're going to have to know how to write scripts. And whether it'd be bash shell
script PowerShell scripts or Python scripts. That is part of the cloud engineers job. No, not the
cloud architects remember their systems designers. But for the cloud engineer coding, and configuring
and scripting, absolutely. The cloud engineer may need to know things like infrastructures
code, like TerraForm. And the cloud engineer is going to have to have deep knowledge of Linux,
because guess what, they're gonna be working with it all the time. I ask you, what do you enjoy?
That's how you know, what do you want a cloud architect career or a cloud engineer career?
What do you enjoy, if you enjoy meeting people and closing business deals and solving customer
problems, executive writing lots of writing, giving presentations, then cloud architecture
is for you. It's a wonderful career with extreme potential for advancement because of the hybrid
of the technology professional, and the executive. So when a move with the Enterprise Architecture,
great want to be a future CIO, CTO, etc. Great, because we're marrying the leadership
with technology. But if you don't like giving presentations, and you don't enjoy business,
and you don't enjoy going out there and meeting new people and closing deals, well, then that
cloud architecture career is not going to make you happy. But what might would be a cloud engineering
career, because you'll be hands on technical. And if you like being hands on technical,
the cloud engineering career is fantastic. What really matters is this. Doing something
that makes you happy. Mark Twain said if you make your vacation, your vocation, you'll never work a
day in your life. You know what, 25 years ago I moved into tech leaving internal medicine.
And let me tell you, Tech was my hobby. Tech was my passion in the last 25 years in tech. I don't
know I've never worked a day in my life because I made my vacation my vocation. So I want you to do
what's going to make you happiest. But whether you desire to be a cloud architect, or cloud engineer,
my recommendation is as follows. learn the skills for your career, and let somebody else train the
skills for their career. Because it's better to be good at your skills, and someone else,
if you want to maximize that cloud architect or Solution Architect career. So go out there, build
the career you love, build the career of your dreams, and go out there and get yourself cloud
hired or cod promoted. This is Michael Gibbs. I'm the founder and CEO of go cloud architects and
go cloud careers, wishing you the best technology career. Take care. It was so nice having you join
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Thank you so much. This is Michael Gibbs from Google Cloud architects.