Cloud Engineer
What the work is
Builds, supports, manages and maintains cloud-based solutions and services, including cloud-based processes, applications, storage and computer networks.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Deploys, configures and automates cloud services
- Creates, tests and implements cloud-based functions and applications
- Monitors and manages cloud resources and performance to ensure they are meeting production goals
- Troubleshoots issues with cloud-based solutions and services, and implements enhancements and fixes when necessary
- Ensures that cloud infrastructure and services meet security and compliance requirements by implementing security controls, managing access and authentication, and monitoring for security threats
- May plan and implement the migration of data and other information to the cloud
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a product team at a fictional online grocery delivery company, with developers, a designer and a product manager. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- You solve a problem that had the whole team stuck, and you wrote less code than anyone expected
- A release goes out smoothly and the customers never know it happened
- A newer colleague you helped writes their first good piece of code
Hard days
- The site slows down at the worst possible moment, on the busiest night of the week
- A feature everyone wanted is built, and then nobody wants to use it
- Code you wrote two years ago turns out to be the cause of a bug today
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
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Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 273331, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.