Cloud Architect

cloud computing Architecture

QP Code SSC/Q8302 NSQF Level 7

Brief Job Description

Individuals in this job are responsible for designing, maintaining, evaluating, and testing architectures of cloud products and solutions. They formulate enterprise policies and guidelines for cloud implementation and governance. They assist in validating customer proposals and project plans for cloud implementation. They also assess cloud vendors and third-party cloud service providers.

Personal Attributes

Cloud Architects must be able to communicate effectively. They must have strong interpersonal skills, an analytical mindset, and a zeal to learn new things

Role Map

Technology Cloud Computing

Job Category Architecture

Job Track Cloud Architecture

Roles

Cloud Architect

NSQF Level: 7

Technical Competencies

Key job task/function that an individual has to perform as a part of the job. These are also known as National Occupational Standards (NOS).

13 13 Compulsory

Define enterprise cloud guidelines and implement regulatory compliances

This unit is about creating standard protocols and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards for the successful implementation of cloud architecture in the organization

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8305 NSQF Level 7

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Translate business-level use cases into technical requirements and specifications

This unit is about gathering business requirements and translating them into technical requirements and specifications for relevant stakeholders

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8306 NSQF Level 7

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Analyze, design, and maintain cloud architecture that meets business requirements

This unit is about designing and maintaining secure cloud architecture that addresses business requirements

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8307 NSQF Level 7

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Design and maintain strong security architecture

This unit is about creating and maintaining a cloud security architecture that addresses security aspects of the business requirements

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8308 NSQF Level 7

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Ensure cloud platforms and services are scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant

This unit is about ensuring that cloud platforms and services are resilient and fault-tolerant and respond to scalability requirements

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8309 NSQF Level 7

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Define monitoring parameter and monitoring tools to monitor and manage cloud services

This unit is about defining metrics and tools required for monitoring the performance and utilization of cloud resources

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8310 NSQF Level 7

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Validate project plans, costs, and resources required for implementing cloud solutions

This unit is about evaluating and verifying project plans, costs, and resources associated with implementing cloud solutions

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8311 NSQF Level 7

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Assist in creating proposals and cost models for implementing cloud solutions

This unit is about providing support in terms of creating proposals for implementing cloud solutions and defining the costs associated with it

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8312 NSQF Level 7

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Assess and screen cloud vendors and third-party service providers

This unit is about identifying leading cloud vendors and third-party cloud service providers and evaluating their technologies to select the most appropriate technology provider

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N8304 NSQF Level 7

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Convince others to take appropriate action in different situations

This unit is about convincing others to take appropriate action in different situations

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N9010 NSQF Level 6

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Manage team performance to achieve project goals

This unit is about organizing tasks within the team to effectively meet project goals

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N9011 NSQF Level 8

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Manage and collaborate with stakeholders for project success

This unit is about managing and communicating effectively with stakeholders to ensure that project requirements are met

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N9012 NSQF Level 6

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Maintain an inclusive, environmentally sustainable workplace

The unit is about implementing and improving diversity equality and inclusion in a sustainable and environment friendly workplace

Compulsory NOS Code SSC/N9014 NSQF Level 5

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Supplementary Topics

Advanced topics that will help you excel in this role

Network-as-a-Service Advanced Security techniques of Load Balancing Secure Integration of Cloud with IoT and Blockchain Edge Cloud Architecture Green Cloud Architecture Server-less Architecture Omni-cloud System

Popular Tools Used by Cloud Architect

Development Language and SDKs C++ Python R C# Java JavaScript Objective-C Kotline Swift Ruby AJAX LAMP Stack Nodejs ReactJS AngularJS Django Apache Maven PowerShell etc

Integrated Development Environment Apple Xcode Android Studio Eclipse Microsoft Visual Code Netbeans etc

Database Management System Cassandra MongoDB Oracle PL/SQL Teradata NoSQL Amazon DynamoDB Apache Hive MySQL Oracle JDBC Teradata Active EDW Blackboard IBM DB2

Cloud Database Services Microsoft Azure SQL Databse MOngoDB Atlas Amazon Relational Database Service Google BigQuery IBM DB2 on Cloud SAP HANA service Aiven Amazon Neptune IBM Cloudant etc

Cloud Compute Services Amazon EC2 Amazon EC2 Autoscaling Amazon LightSail Amazon Elastic Container Service AWS BeanStalk AWS Batch Azure Virtual machine Azure Batch Azure AppService Google Compute Engine Google Clous GPUs Google Preemptible VMs etc

Cloud Storage Services Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Amazon S3 Glacier Azure Disk Storage Azure Data Lake Storage Azure Data Explorer Google Cloud Storage Google Persistent Disk Google Cloud Storage Google Cloud Filestore etc

Container Management & Orchestration Kubernetes Apache Mesos Docker Swarm OpenShift Amazon ECS Azure Container Service Diego Fleet Google Container Engine Etc

Cloud Monitoring Tools Cloudability Cloudyn Dell Boomi Enstratius Informatica CloudHub AppDynamics Retrace etc

Configuration Management Tools Puupet Chef Ansible CFEngine JUJU Bamboo etc

Identity and Access Management Microsoft Identity Manager Microsoft Azure Active Directory Oracle Identity Management Auth0 SailPoint etc

Network Monitoring Software Nagios SolarWinds NPM PRTG network monitor Zabbix OpenNMS

Backup or Recoveryl Software Oracle Data Guard Veritas NetBackup Oracle Recovery Manager