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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 amazons 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 %