Cloud architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Selects cloud service patterns that satisfy availability, scalability, and cost constraints.
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Infrastructure and operations
Cloud Engineer
Designs, provisions, secures, and operates cloud infrastructure and managed services.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 9
- Published coverage
- 9
- Relevant courses
- 58
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Cloud foundations
5 capabilities
Cloud networking
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs connectivity, traffic flow, and isolation for cloud workloads.
Cloud security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies identity, least privilege, workload protection, and policy controls.
Cloud storage
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Selects and operates durable storage for workload requirements.
Cloud compute
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Selects and operates virtual-machine, container, and serverless compute services.
02
Cloud operations
4 capabilities
Container orchestration
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Deploys and operates cloud-native workloads on orchestrated platforms.
Course coverage
Cloud operations
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Maintains service health, capacity, upgrades, and recovery procedures.
Infrastructure as code
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Provisions cloud resources through reviewed and reproducible definitions.
Observability
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Uses cloud and workload telemetry to diagnose behavior and failures.
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Cloud Cost Allocation
- Cloud Cost Management
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- Cloud Databases
- Cloud Forecasting and Budgeting
- Cloud Migration
- Cloud Native Architecture
- Cloud Native Fundamentals
- Cloud Native Networking
- Cloud Native Observability
- Cloud Native Security
- Cloud Native Storage
- Container FundamentalsFree
- Docker Fundamentals
- Edge Computing
- FinOps Fundamentals
- Google Cloud Compute
- Google Cloud Identity
- Google Cloud Networking
- Google Cloud Storage
- Hybrid Cloud Architecture
- Immutable Infrastructure
- Kubernetes FundamentalsFree
- Kubernetes Observability
- Kubernetes Operations
- Kubernetes Workloads
- Microsoft Azure Compute
- Microsoft Azure Identity
- Microsoft Azure Networking
- Microsoft Azure Storage
- Multi-Cloud Architecture
- Observability FundamentalsFree
- OpenTofu Fundamentals
- Packer Fundamentals
- Pulumi Fundamentals
- Serverless Computing
- Terraform Fundamentals
- Unit Economics for Cloud Services
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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