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What are the Required Skills to Master in order to  Land a Job in Cloud Computing Or Big Data Analytics?

  • How  a Technical BackGrounded Guy Can Get a Job In cloud Computing Or Big Data Analytics ? What are the Essential Skills Required to Join the Upcoming the Boom Of Cloud Computing or Big data ? What Are the Useful Resources regarding this ?

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    Landing a job in cloud computing is an example of the Permission Paradox (see an excellent article about it here: https://www.spencerstuart.com/yourcareer/management/483/) - you don't have the experience, so you don't have the job. You don't have the job, so you don't have the experience. The easiest way, at least in the case of cloud computing, is to demonstrate your competence by building something in the cloud.  It is actually easy.  Since you have a technical background, building something in the cloud shouldn't be difficult. Go to any of the cloud providers (there are many of them - I work for one), look at their learn/education/training/tutorials section, and see examples of how to build an app in the cloud.  Most of them come with sample code, instructions, tutorials.  Build a simple cloud computing application.  You can learn a ton just by doing something as simple as installing a Wordpress blog for yourself - e.g. create a 'How I learned cloud computing blog' as your first cloud computing exercise.  Then you can move to more complex use cases.  Of course, few would hire you if you just created a blog.  But in that process you'd have understood the basics.  Full disclosure: I work at Rackspace, a cloud provider.

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Learning by doing is a very good way to get experience in any IT related field. If you don't have access, time or money to attend a class in virtualization and distributed computing. A book or Internet tutorials, free virtualization software and some spare equipment. Can also go a long way to getting the experience you seek. Before shelling out the money to rent cloud space and hosting your demonstration project. My favorite IT team members are the experimenters and self-learners, the ones that have hobby computer labs in their basement or spare bedroom. The ones that will tell you, "I don't know how to do that, yet." Then come back to you with the information and skills in a few days. Those are the kind of people I love to work with.

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Sébastien Corniglion

There is not a precise list to study and apply for a position in the cloud computing area. I tried to summarize what are the most important ones with a blog post some weeks ago: http://cloudacademy.com/blog/prerequisites-to-learn-cloud-computing-introduction/ Given the fact that teaching cloud is our job, I'd suggest Linux as the main skill you should have in order to start a career in the cloud field. Then being able to code or understand multi-tiers architectures.

Stefano Bellasio

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