Design, deploy, automate, secure, observe, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure and application services.
Cloud Engineers combine networking, compute, storage, identity, automation, security, monitoring, and cost awareness to operate reliable cloud environments.
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VPC/VNet, subnets, routes, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity.
VMs, managed compute, containers, and scaling patterns.
Object, block, file, backup, and managed-data concepts.
Identity, roles, policies, secrets, encryption, and logging.
Provision repeatable environments through code.
Use logs, metrics, traces, events, and runbooks.
Tag, right-size, clean up, and understand usage drivers.
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Linux, networking, DNS, HTTP, identity, and troubleshooting.
Compute, storage, networking, IAM, databases, and managed services.
Use Git, scripting, and Terraform or provider-native IaC.
Deploy workloads and add monitoring, logging, and operational controls.
Add least privilege, backup, recovery, scaling, and cost controls.
Core cloud services and operations.
Repeatable infrastructure provisioning.
Common cloud server administration and troubleshooting.
Container packaging and runtime concepts.
Version infrastructure and automate delivery.
Logs, metrics, alarms, and operational visibility.
Define availability, connectivity, identity, data, security, and cost constraints.
Choose services, network boundaries, access model, and deployment pattern.
Use IaC and source control rather than undocumented manual changes.
Release workloads, test connectivity, permissions, health, and recovery.
Monitor, troubleshoot, patch, back up, optimize, and document.
A business application needs a repeatable cloud environment with secure access, availability, monitoring, and recovery.
Design and operate the environment using cloud services and infrastructure as code.
Build a small multi-tier cloud environment with network segmentation, role-based access, automated provisioning, monitoring, backup, and documented operational procedures.
Network, compute, storage, load balancing, identity, and monitoring.
Versioned Terraform or equivalent for repeatable deployment.
Roles, policies, service identities, and least privilege.
Health, performance, errors, and alerting.
Deployment, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, and rollback procedures.
Shows service-selection reasoning.
Shows automation.
Shows security fundamentals.
Shows operations.
Shows troubleshooting and ownership.
Discuss network, compute, load balancing, data, monitoring, and failure domains.
Explain repeatability, review, drift reduction, testing, and recovery.
Trace DNS, routes, security controls, load balancer, service health, and application logs.
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