Career Overlap Transition record
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Cloud engineer to cloud DevOps engineer

A cloud engineer already meets 57% of what the cloud DevOps engineer role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From cloud engineer
57 % overlap
Partial match
To cloud DevOps engineer
15 You already bring
9 Still to learn
30 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

48.4/ 100

1 How much of what a cloud DevOps engineer is expected to do is already part of a cloud engineer’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the cloud DevOps engineer role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A cloud DevOps engineer role treats 15 of its required skills as things a cloud engineer already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • ICT system programming
  • automate cloud tasks
  • cloud monitoring and reporting
  • cloud security and compliance
  • cloud technologies
  • deploy cloud resource

What stands in the way is 9 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 15 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A cloud DevOps engineer role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a cloud engineer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held deploy cloud resource working with computers
  • already held design cloud networks communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held plan migration to cloud working with computers
  • already held do cloud refactoring working with computers
  • already held implement cloud security and compliance information skills
  • already held cloud monitoring and reporting information and communication technologies (icts)

All 15 carried skills, including the 15 the cloud DevOps engineer role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 15 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 information and communication technologies (icts) 6 required, 5 supplementary
  • still to learn DevOps required
  • still to learn JavaScript required
  • still to learn Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) required
  • still to learn integrated development environment software required
  • still to learn software frameworks required
  • still to learn system backup best practice required
  • optional, not held ASP.NET optional
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
  • optional, not held KDevelop optional
  • optional, not held application usability optional
02 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 required
  • still to learn computer engineering required
03 management skills 1 required
  • still to learn manage disaster recovery plans required
04 working with computers 1 required
  • still to learn implement ICT recovery system required
05 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a cloud DevOps engineer role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 15 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT system programming knowledge
  • already held automate cloud tasks skill
  • already held cloud monitoring and reporting knowledge
  • already held cloud security and compliance knowledge
  • already held cloud technologies knowledge
  • already held deploy cloud resource skill
  • already held design cloud architecture skill
  • already held design cloud networks skill
  • already held design database in the cloud skill
  • already held design for organisational complexity skill
  • already held develop with cloud services skill
  • already held do cloud refactoring skill
  • already held implement cloud security and compliance skill
  • already held manage cloud data and storage skill
  • already held plan migration to cloud skill
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held ASP.NET optional
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held KDevelop optional
  • optional, not held application usability optional
30 held skills the cloud DevOps engineer role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ICT security standards knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT system integration knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role align software with system architectures skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse business requirements skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse software specifications skill
  • not needed by the target role apply ICT systems theory skill
  • not needed by the target role apply risk management processes skill
  • not needed by the target role computer programming knowledge
  • not needed by the target role cyber security knowledge
  • not needed by the target role data engineering knowledge
  • not needed by the target role database development tools knowledge
  • not needed by the target role debug software skill
  • not needed by the target role design interaction model skill
  • not needed by the target role develop software prototype skill
  • not needed by the target role ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role interpret technical texts skill
  • not needed by the target role manage keys for data protection skill
  • not needed by the target role operating systems knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform data analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role respond to incidents in cloud skill
  • not needed by the target role security engineering knowledge
  • not needed by the target role service-oriented modelling knowledge
  • not needed by the target role solve ICT system problems skill
  • not needed by the target role systems development life-cycle knowledge
  • not needed by the target role systems theory knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use query languages skill
  • not needed by the target role web services knowledge
13 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn DevOps required
  • still to learn JavaScript required
  • still to learn Jenkins (tools for software configuration management) required
  • still to learn integrated development environment software required
  • still to learn software frameworks required
  • still to learn computer engineering required
  • still to learn system backup best practice required
  • optional, not held ASP.NET optional
  • optional, not held Agile development optional
  • optional, not held Eclipse (integrated development environment software) optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management methodologies optional
  • optional, not held KDevelop optional
  • optional, not held application usability optional
Index

Other moves recorded from cloud engineer

Full index of moves from cloud engineer

FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can a cloud engineer become a cloud DevOps engineer?

Yes, and it is a moderate move. A cloud engineer already covers 57% of what a cloud DevOps engineer is expected to do: 15 skills carry over, 15 of which the cloud DevOps engineer role treats as required.

What skills does a cloud engineer need to become a cloud DevOps engineer?

9 required skills are missing, plus 6 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information and communication technologies (icts). The single most important is DevOps.

How hard is the move from cloud engineer to cloud DevOps engineer?

Its learning distance is 48.4 out of 100, which is the moderate band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.