Top 10 tips to get your first cloud job?

Tip 1:- Understand cloud computing

how is it different what is the opportunity that presents big players in the market understand a high level market perspective in terms of jobs cloud specific roles the kind of expertise and the experience that is needed

Tip 2:- Opportunities in the cloud across industries and various expertise areas

you can be a professional with years of experience in any of these areas

infrastructure networking

application development

security

operations

automation and more

and you can continue to work in these areas in the cloud as well .

Tip 3:- The importance of community

The importance of community join a local community where peers discuss topics and areas that they are working on this is a great way to understand what others are doing in this field and the kind of opportunities that exist be a giver to the community to join it at the events help coordinate events review talks conduct workshops every event is a platform to learn and gain something that adds to your cloud skills you’re likely to hear about job opportunities from this group Google cloud launched a community program for Google cloud developers and technical practitioners called the innovators program joining gets you unique access to live and interactive events technical discussions and much more to come check out the link to join

https://cloud.google.com/innovators/

Tip 4: - Communication skills + technical skills = winning combination

This is a really simple one communication skills and technical skills are winning combination if all skills you have you can crack cloud job easily .

Tip 5: - Be authentic

Be authentic, cloud is a vast area and it is really fast moving one. Identify an area or two within a cloud provider that interests you bring in your prior experience and go deep it’s OK to say that you’re still learning most important things is the curiosity to learn every day!!

Tip 6: - Argument your current skill

Augment your current skills bring your existing knowledge around application development and think of various factors that are unique to cloud development like scale, resilience, high availability, pay per use ,governance, operation, security and more

Tip 7:- Start with foundation courses

If new to cloud start with a foundations course that gives a broad overview of the cloud provider and its services for example Google cloud fundamentals

Tip 8:- Target a certification

Targeting a certification bring focus and discipline to achieving it put a date to get it however google cloud India recently had a road to certification program form a study group with colleagues.

Tip 9: - Build your portfolio

Build your portfolio focus on implementing and deploying a solution to the cloud document your process what you learned what you could have done differently publish these learnings let these be the start of your artifact that you can show to prospective employers around what you’ve been doing focus on building more artifacts talks that you can give on the topic ,Write blog posts ,Create GitHub projects and more these should form a portfolio that you highlight when you’re going for a job.

Tip 10: - Referral works best

Referral works best, Reach out into your community and your network they know your work share your latest learnings and artifacts with them see if they can put in a referral

Above top 10 tips to help you to get your first cloud job

Reference Link :- To know more details about this tips and tricks check out the original authors Priyanka Vergadia YouTube video