The Tech industry is slow to recognize the need for an entire new profession: the Cloud Network Architect. from Nico Vibert
Cloud Network Architect. Nico Vibert @nic972 The Tech industry is slow to recognize the need for an entire new profession: the Cloud Network Architect. It's somehow expected that Infrastructure engineers become Cloud Architects and somehow learn all aspects of cloud networking - it's not fair on them, just like it wouldn't be fair on me to learn intricacies of storage or database. Cloud Networking should be a dedicated role. Here are some of the skillsets I expect in a cloud network architect: Understanding of connectivity options to the Cloud or between Clouds (an app created in the cloud (or migrated to the cloud) does not exist in a vacuum) - including VPN, Direct Connect or similar, BGP, etc. Deep expertise on Internet connectivity. By this mean: Internet peering points, content distribution, DNS, global load-balancing, SSL VPN, about CASB platforms like @zscaler, DMZ, etc... - in summary: accessing the Internet securely and quickly or providing web-facing servic