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Competences — cloud engineer

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/349ee6f6-c295-4c38-9b98-48765b55280e).

Essential

  • align software with system architectures (skill/competence)
  • analyse business requirements (skill/competence)
  • analyse software specifications (skill/competence)
  • automate cloud tasks (skill/competence)
  • cloud monitoring and reporting (knowledge)
  • cloud security and compliance (knowledge)
  • cloud technologies (knowledge)
  • computer programming (knowledge)
  • cyber security (knowledge)
  • database development tools (knowledge)
  • debug software (skill/competence)
  • deploy cloud resource (skill/competence)
  • design cloud architecture (skill/competence)
  • design cloud networks (skill/competence)
  • design database in the cloud (skill/competence)
  • design for organisational complexity (skill/competence)
  • develop software prototype (skill/competence)
  • develop with cloud services (skill/competence)
  • do cloud refactoring (skill/competence)
  • ICT system integration (knowledge)
  • ICT system programming (knowledge)
  • implement cloud security and compliance (skill/competence)
  • interpret technical texts (skill/competence)
  • manage cloud data and storage (skill/competence)
  • manage keys for data protection (skill/competence)
  • operating systems (knowledge)
  • plan migration to cloud (skill/competence)
  • respond to incidents in cloud (skill/competence)
  • service-oriented modelling (knowledge)
  • solve ICT system problems (skill/competence)
  • systems development life-cycle (knowledge)
  • systems theory (knowledge)
  • web services (knowledge)

Optional

  • apply ICT systems theory (skill/competence)
  • apply risk management processes (skill/competence)
  • data engineering (knowledge)
  • design interaction model (skill/competence)
  • ethics (knowledge)
  • ICT security standards (knowledge)
  • Java (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • perform data analysis (skill/competence)
  • Python (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • Ruby (computer programming) (knowledge)
  • security engineering (knowledge)
  • use query languages (skill/competence)

Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 60 ads, as of 2026-07-10)

Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.

Hard skills

  • troubleshooting — 27 %
  • cloud infrastructure design — 20 %