Builds the cloud infrastructure foundations: compute, storage, network and IaC.
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
High
Key skills
Career overview
The Cloud Infrastructure Engineer designs and builds the cloud foundations: landing zones, networking, identity, storage and the Terraform modules that make them reproducible. The role is the cloud twin of infrastructure engineering.
Main responsibilities
- Provision and secure cloud resources
- Describe infrastructure as code and version it
- Build cloud landing zones and guardrails
- Design and operate cloud networking
- Track and optimise cloud spending
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
- Build high availability and disaster recovery setups
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Common entry point
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- Azure AZ-104
- Terraform Associate
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Direct progression
Possible branches
Where can you go next?
Realistic next career moves, with compatibility and a transition roadmap for each.
Overlap: 64% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: Identity & access management, Containers, Cost optimisation
View roadmapOverlap: 34% · Difficulty: Hard
Skills to learn: Landing zones, Cost & FinOps, Migration
View roadmapOverlap: 39% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: CI/CD at scale, Developer experience, Platform architecture
View roadmapWhere can you go from here?
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Big-picture thinking
- Problem solving
- Autonomy
- Clear communication
- Documentation writing
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