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Cloud Career Roles (Cloud Engineer, Architect, SRE)

Part of the Cloud Computing Roadmap.

Summary

A Cloud Engineer builds and maintains cloud infrastructure day-to-day, a Cloud/Solutions Architect designs the overall system and makes higher-level trade-off decisions, and an SRE focuses specifically on reliability.

How to Learn This

  • 1Read one job description for each role and note the differing seniority and scope expectations.
  • 2Learn why Architect roles usually require significant prior hands-on engineering experience.
  • 3Identify which role sounds closest to your own interests as you work through this roadmap.

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