6.3 KiB
6.3 KiB
Competences — cloud architect
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2fb96c6c-8d0b-4ef0-b1ee-3e493305e4eb).
Essential
- cloud technologies (knowledge)
- collaborate with engineers (skill/competence)
- deploy cloud resource (skill/competence)
- design cloud architecture (skill/competence)
- design cloud networks (skill/competence)
- plan migration to cloud (skill/competence)
Optional
- Agile development (knowledge)
- Agile project management (knowledge)
- automate cloud tasks (skill/competence)
- cloud security and compliance (knowledge)
- coordinate engineering teams (skill/competence)
- design database in the cloud (skill/competence)
- design for organisational complexity (skill/competence)
- develop with cloud services (skill/competence)
- DevOps (knowledge)
- do cloud refactoring (skill/competence)
- ICT architectural frameworks (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 9 ads, as of 2026-07-10)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- cloud architecture — 33 %
- cloud architecture design — 33 %
- identity and access management — 22 %
- network design — 22 %
- secure enclave design — 22 %
- system design — 22 %
- system integration — 11 %
- solution development — 11 %
- solution implementation — 11 %
- security compliance — 11 %
- security hardening — 11 %
- security implementation — 11 %
- secure infrastructure implementation — 11 %
- security architecture — 11 %
- risk identification — 11 %
- project management — 11 %
- proposal development — 11 %
- pursuit orchestration — 11 %
- requirements definition — 11 %
- network security — 11 %
- migration planning — 11 %
- multi-cloud strategy — 11 %
- network architecture — 11 %
- kubernetes administration — 11 %
- kubernetes orchestration — 11 %
- legacy system migration — 11 %
- logging and monitoring — 11 %
- identity management — 11 %
- incident response — 11 %
- infrastructure as code — 11 %
- infrastructure-as-code — 11 %
- interface definition — 11 %
- encryption — 11 %
- iaac implementation — 11 %
- ci/cd pipeline architecture — 11 %
- cloud engineering — 11 %
- cloud infrastructure architecture — 11 %
- cloud modernization — 11 %
- ai platform engineering — 11 %
- cloud security — 11 %
- cloud security architecture — 11 %
- compliance documentation — 11 %
- compliance engineering — 11 %
- compliance frameworks — 11 %
- configuration management — 11 %
- containerization — 11 %
- cost optimization — 11 %
- cross-functional leadership — 11 %
- customer relationship development — 11 %
- devsecops practices — 11 %
- disaster recovery — 11 %
- technical architecture — 11 %
- technical writing — 11 %
- technology evaluation — 11 %
- systems engineering — 11 %
- troubleshooting — 11 %
- zero trust implementation — 11 %
- system deployment — 11 %
Methods
- devsecops — 44 %
- infrastructure as code (iac) — 22 %
- IT/Digital Transformation — 11 %
- infrastructure-as-code — 11 %
- hybrid cloud environments — 11 %
- IaC — 11 %
- microservices architecture — 11 %
- Migration — 11 %
- Modernization — 11 %
- NIST 800-207 — 11 %
- nist 800-53 compliance — 11 %
- platform engineering — 11 %
- secure design reviews — 11 %
- dhs 4300a requirements — 11 %
- design thinking — 11 %
- DevOps practices — 11 %
- fedramp compliance — 11 %
- fedramp high compliance — 11 %
- finops — 11 %
- fisma compliance — 11 %
- agile development — 11 %
- Agile methods — 11 %
- big bang architecture — 11 %
- CI/CD pipelines — 11 %
- zero trust principles — 11 %
- zero-trust architecture — 11 %
- V-model — 11 %
- zero trust frameworks — 11 %
- technical architecture reviews — 11 %
Responsibilities
- cloud governance — 22 %
- architecture design — 22 %
- cross-functional collaboration — 22 %
- security implementation — 22 %
- security solution implementation — 11 %
- solution architecture — 11 %
- solution conceptualization — 11 %
- solution deployment — 11 %
- stakeholder presentation — 11 %
- solution development — 11 %
- system migration — 11 %
- system element architecture — 11 %
- secure cloud pattern collaboration — 11 %
- security assessment participation — 11 %
- platform integration — 11 %
- resource optimization — 11 %
- reference architecture development — 11 %
- making proserve capabilities visible — 11 %
- legacy system migration — 11 %
- leading milestone reviews — 11 %
- federal security compliance — 11 %
- emerging service evaluation — 11 %
- emerging technology evaluation — 11 %
- infrastructure validation — 11 %
- cluster management — 11 %
- cost optimization — 11 %
- connecting amazon’s operational excellence — 11 %
- compliance management — 11 %
- compliance oversight — 11 %
- cloud solution architecture — 11 %
- framework establishment — 11 %
- disaster recovery planning — 11 %
- architecture review — 11 %
- ai infrastructure development — 11 %
- architectural guidance — 11 %
- architectural guideline development — 11 %
- architectural oversight — 11 %
- aligning domain experts — 11 %
- building reusable integration assets — 11 %
- cloud infrastructure design — 11 %
- cloud modernization support — 11 %
- cloud platform design — 11 %
- client requirement definition — 11 %
- cloud architecture design — 11 %
- cloud architecture development — 11 %
- technical direction provision — 11 %
- technical leadership — 11 %
- technical response delivery — 11 %
- technical roadmap creation — 11 %
- technology evaluation — 11 %
- technology roadmap definition — 11 %
- team collaboration — 11 %