Three Cloud Jobs MSPs Could Find Hard – and Expensive – to Fill
Demand for cloud is driving a bull market for candidates with still-rare skill sets.
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Description: This technician understands how to select the right set of tools to integrate client data on cloud, on-premise or hybrid architectures. That means connecting source and target systems, managing any technical differences, extracting data, then publishing.
Linthicum’s analysis: “The demand here comes from enterprises that are migrating data to the cloud and have not thought through how to sync data within and between cloud and on-premises systems. In 2017, enterprises will be scrambling to fill these jobs, and I suspect the folks who get hired will be data-integration engineers who also understand and have experience in the cloud.”
Salary: Employment site Glassdoor lists the average salary at $89,460.
Description: These folks are skilled at leveraging cloud technologies to manage big data for end users.
Linthicum’s analysis: “These people know about AWS RedShift and AWS Elastic MapReduce, as well as the big data technologies at Google and Microsoft Azure. The key criterion for this job is, not only understanding the basics of big data, but the specific technologies that have the right fit and where.”
Salary: A big data specialist with proficiency in Hadoop, for example, can expect to earn an average of $121,313, according to a survey on tech salary site Dice.com.
Description: A network architect for cloud, this position assesses a client’s requirements and pulls together the right cloud solutions to meet those needs, utilizing public, private or hybrid cloud technologies.
Linthicum’s analysis: “To do this job, you must know a lot about cloud technology and how to configure it to meet the needs of the workloads set to be hosted on it. There aren't many of these people around, thus the high demand and high pay.”
Salary: Employment site Glassdoor lists the average salary at $142,141.
Description: A network architect for cloud, this position assesses a client’s requirements and pulls together the right cloud solutions to meet those needs, utilizing public, private or hybrid cloud technologies.
Linthicum’s analysis: “To do this job, you must know a lot about cloud technology and how to configure it to meet the needs of the workloads set to be hosted on it. There aren't many of these people around, thus the high demand and high pay.”
Salary: Employment site Glassdoor lists the average salary at $142,141.
Technology services providers are being pressured from every angle to aggressively evolve and build practices around the booming business of cloud computing.
But a consequence of the furious pace of cloud adoption has been a shortage of cloud-savvy technicians, forcing MSPs to pay up for essential talent – if they can manage to lure those qualified candidates at all.
In an article for tech site InfoWorld, cloud consultant David Linthicum detailed three critical cloud jobs that will likely prove very hard (not to mention expensive) for many companies to fill.
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