AWS Specialist & DevOps Package

Our AWS Career Path is designed to get you job-ready and employed. You will start learning fast, gaining practical knowledge, and developing hands-on skills through our interactive live classes, unlimited labs, practice exams, Work experience using AWS to complete real-world Projects and career mentorship. We will empower you to learn how to Architect and protect your cloud infrastructure, as well as securing data and information, running risk analysis and mitigation, architecting cloud-based security, achieving compliance and much more with this best-in-class program.

What is the AWS  path

If you’re thinking about a career in tech, then the cloud is unquestionably the place to be.

No longer the next big thing in the tech space, cloud computing is fast becoming the norm. The vast majority of the world’s businesses and organizations run at least part of their operations from the cloud, with more outfits making the leap every day. 

The value of the public cloud market is expected to rocket to $331bn by 2022, with the cloud services industry set to grow at a rate three times faster than that of IT services overall. 

Leading the public cloud pack by a significant margin is Amazon Web Services.

Countless businesses are utilizing AWS cloud services, and they’re creating new roles all the time. Right now, there simply aren’t enough AWS professionals on the market to fill these positions. This talent gap is putting AWS customers in a tricky situation, but it’s great news for anyone considering a career in the AWS space.

Since skilled cloud pros are in short supply, those with the right experience to take on these roles are holding all the aces, and certainly won’t be short of options when it comes to finding a great job with a great salary to match.

In addition, budding AWS professionals have a lot of opportunities in front of them when it comes to the type of job they want to do. Cloud computing encompasses so many kinds of products and services—AWS offers tools that cover everything from infrastructure and storage to data analytics, machine learning, and software development.

It’s often said there’s no longer such thing as a job for life; it’s certainly true that in the tech sector you need to be committed to lifelong learning and upskilling to stay in demand as a professional. But cloud computing is here to stay, and if you’re looking to build a career that’s both lucrative and lasting, you can’t get much better than AWS.

AWS Architects are responsible for designing complex cloud infrastructure in much the same way that a traditional architect designs buildings.

They start by gathering specifications and requirements from users across the business and use those to map out a solution that meets those needs using the AWS platform.

Sometimes that means designing an AWS solution from scratch; in other cases, the job involves translating existing apps and infrastructure into cloud terms, and helping businesses migrate to the cloud or replicate their existing processes using AWS products.

AWS Architects not only need to be able to map out great solutions, but also configure and secure them to ensure maximum efficiency once they’re up and running.

A great AWS Architect has both outstanding technical skills and soft skills. Cloud Architects work across the aisle, dealing with both the teams of developers and engineers who’ll build the solution and the end-users who’ll use it. They need to be able to communicate with people at all levels of the business, with various degrees of technical understanding.

As an AWS Architect, you can go down several paths. Tech job titles are often fluid; precisely what a Cloud Architect does at one company might be different from what their peer in another organization does, depending on the needs of the business. Alternatively, they might do the same job but have two different job titles. That said, (very) broadly speaking, here are the differences between popular Cloud Architect roles. 

As a Cloud Application Architect, you’ll lead on the design, planning, and implementation of apps built on the cloud.

A Cloud Infrastructure Architect, on the other hand, focuses more on the wider infrastructure underneath an organization’s cloud apps; things like servers, storage, delivery, security, and networks. 

A DevOps Architect undertakes similar projects—taking a broad look at the needs of an organization and devising a cloud-based solution to suit all of those requirements—but utilizes DevOps practices and methodologies to deliver this solution.

Average Salary Cloud Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services £78,617

1. Development experience in Python including writing and promoting Lambda’s
2. CloudFormation infrastructure-as-code
3. Producing reusable code that is efficient and easily testable
4. CI/CD pipelines
5. AWS SDK
6. Deep understanding of networking – security groups, load balancers, transit gateway, TLS etc.
7. IAM and role management
8. Monitoring and alerting support using CloudWatch and CloudTrail
9. Understand security concept e.g. KMS, Secrets Manager etc.
10. Ability to understand AWS account set-up for creating a wrapper service with controls around AWS service use
11. troubleshooting experience and script validation taskcat, cfn python lint
12. Proven ability to design and implement secure cloud architectures and designs that meet clients’ business requirements and incorporate appropriate and sustainable security controls and risk reductions.
13. Experience with assessing, developing, designing, implementing, operationalizing and documenting a comprehensive set of security technologies and processes within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments
14. Secure software development (securing the CI/CD pipeline)
15. Infrastructure Security (Infrastructure as code, automation)
16. Data protection (cryptography & key management, DLP, privacy etc)
17. Identity and access management
18. Working knowledge of common and industry standard cloud-native/cloud-friendly authentication mechanisms