Current Skills New Skills
• Enterprise Architecture
• D
ata flows and business processes
• O
bjectives, including RPO, RTP and
KPIs • Enterprise Architecture
• Cloud provider services roadmap
• Cloud provider services
comparisons
• Serverless application architecture
• System deployment
• Incident response • New service application to existing
application stacks
• Application performance, respon-
siveness and uptime improvements
• Application development
• Application QA • Application development
& deployment
• Full stack automation &
instrumentation
Figure 1: Changing IT Roles
Figure 1 outlines the changes that come about as part of the cloud adoption jour-
ney, and the transition in work efforts by functional areas. The impact will vary
by role, but the theme of speed and constant learning will remain the same:
• Architect – As an architect, your role will move more rapidly in a cloud-
first world. You will be responsible for the ongoing analysis of new ser-
vices and capabilities to identify those that will provide operational and
architectural advantages to the organization.
• Operations – Operations will move from incident response to constantly
tweaking systems, processes and automation, in order to minimize
response time, and maximize performance and availability.
• Developer – As cloud services become dominant, developers need to
gain familiarity with all portions of the IT stack, and have the ability to
deploy and troubleshoot across a wider range of services, tools and plat-
forms. The role of development teams will be to deploy reusable sets of
code, packaged in such a way as to remove dependencies from underly-
ing infrastructure.
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