- It's in my experience that you should splurge on training.
It's easier to transform your existing IT talent
to cloud enabled people
versus trying to hire experience cloud professionals
and get them up to speed the company and the culture.
Hire outside consultants for the first project at least.
This way removes some of the risk
and should be the most cost-effective.
Finally, always evaluate the market costs for talent.
Make sure to upgrade pay and align with what the market
is paying else,
you'll have those people walking out the door.
We'll focus on a few core positions that you'll need
to have a successful transition to cloud.
This includes cloud architect or a person that can design
and build cloud solutions.
Cloud developer or a person that can build
cloud applications or migrate applications.
Finally, cloud security engineer
or a person that can provide enough cloud
security experience to be effective.
Here's the breakdown of what experience each person
will need within these roles.
Cloud architects need to understand cloud holistically.
Meaning that they know the market, which cloud does what
and how to align your requirements with a cloud solution.
They understand stand the process of application
migration at a high level,
assisting in planning and budgets,
know how long something takes
and the resources you'll need to do it.
Also, they should have a good understanding
of cloud providers.
Including the provider selection criteria we presented
in the previous video.
Cloud developers need to understand how to build
applications on specific clouds.
Such as Amazon web services or Google.
They need to know the native programming languages
and tools.
They also need to understand how to leverage cloud
native features or capabilities
that are specific to a cloud.
For instance, how to build auto-scaling features
into an application that is controlled
by the application.
Cloud security engineers need to understand
how to design security solutions for the cloud including,
native security features of cloud providers
as well as external security tools that can be implemented.
Also, they need to understand the security tools
and technologies that are available in great detail.
This means governance, compliance
as well as security.
Note that another important aspect of finding
the right cloud skills is to provide a flexible
and adaptable organization.
This means that it's unstructured and functionally focused.
As we saw it during the pandemic,
those that have flexible and agile organizations
were impacted less by the changes in the workforce.
This agility is also key when building
a cloud development, migration and operations team.
I urge you to consider your skills,
consider your culture and consider your organization
before you migrate to the cloud.