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    Cloud AZURE and AWS contract roles

    Ok, so i have been going through trends by checking these jobs sites and all and i can see loads of cloud roles . Roles on AWS , AZURE, LINUX and they have really good rates, from 350 upwards. I even saw one the other day for AWS Architect for 1000/day. Now are all businesses going to cloud?

    I rember sometime 2013 when Vmware was hot and i jumped in - now i guess its so cold. What is it like working as a cloud engineer. Anything challenging? Thinking of getting my certs and training.

    I am looking to hear from the cloud contractors or permmies here.

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    I'm not a cloud expert, but like all other companies the company I work for is trying to migrate everything into the AWS cloud, so I would say it wouldn't harm to become a cloud expert. Of course once everything is in the cloud and working then everyone will be familiar with working in clouds and you won't need as many specialists to set up new clouds, but obviously as a system admin or ops engineer as they're called these days it will be expected that you're familiar with working in Clouds.
    I'm alright Jack

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      #3
      Yea, i am planing to start up training sometime next month. then get the big rates!

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        #4
        Originally posted by rurffy View Post
        Yea, i am planing to start up training sometime next month. then get the big rates!
        GL landing a contract based on training courses and no field experience, let alone for "big rates"

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          #5
          Originally posted by rurffy View Post
          Yea, i am planing to start up training sometime next month. then get the big rates!
          Get some experience rather than training to get the big rates quicker...
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            #6
            Originally posted by rurffy View Post
            Yea, i am planing to start up training sometime next month. then get the big rates!
            With no practical experience, just reading a few books - get real....

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              #7
              Anyone with 'Administrator' in their title will need to learn how to code.
              "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
              - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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                #8
                Originally posted by cojak View Post
                Anyone with 'Administrator' in their title will need to learn how to code.
                Well said.

                As a Sys Admin, worked at a place that was implementing AWS, I took on some of the work with common sense, however, to go deep into the subject and manage it well, you need to learn how to code and understand automation/configuration tools which I'm on the path to learning, however that needs to be coupled with some previous cloud experience.

                Been offered contracts purely on the fact that I've done a 'bit' of AWS & Azure, so yes the market for cloud skills of any kind is great at the moment. I still wouldn't be confident taking on those roles as yet

                I think that Cloud compared to traditional Infrastructure for me personally looks a damn sight more exciting with a huge scope for learning new and challenging tech.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by spongeym View Post
                  Well said.

                  As a Sys Admin, worked at a place that was implementing AWS, I took on some of the work with common sense, however, to go deep into the subject and manage it well, you need to learn how to code and understand automation/configuration tools which I'm on the path to learning, however that needs to be coupled with some previous cloud experience.

                  Been offered contracts purely on the fact that I've done a 'bit' of AWS & Azure, so yes the market for cloud skills of any kind is great at the moment. I still wouldn't be confident taking on those roles as yet

                  I think that Cloud compared to traditional Infrastructure for me personally looks a damn sight more exciting with a huge scope for learning new and challenging tech.
                  You are correct on this one!. You need to know code to a little extend, obviously you dont want to jump deep down into Cloud developer and stuff. Starting up from the basic AWS support and you work your way up to the devOPS. thats my plan.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by sal View Post
                    GL landing a contract based on training courses and no field experience, let alone for "big rates"
                    If you have been contracting a long time you will understand that you have to go through training throughout if not, will get old and rusty.

                    You also need to understand that there's something called learning on the job. Before people eat me up here, i dont mean taking a big role of an architect to design a full AWS cloud environment, i mean supporting minor aws jobs and scale up. If you want to wait to be a top professional in AWS before u start contracting then im sorry , you are not a contractor and also before you finish learning aws , i think EBAY will come up with theirs lol

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