Cloud Engineer
Build and operate automated, observable cloud infrastructure.
Career Relationships
Directed transitions from Cloud Engineer. Select a destination to inspect the relationship.
- Solution Architect
Advancement
- Platform Architect
Specialisation
- Cybersecurity Engineer
Specialisation
- Senior System Engineer
Lateral mobility
Solution Architect
Cloud implementation experience can develop into solution architecture.
Responsibilities that change
End-to-end design and non-functional requirements.
Recommended experience
- End-to-end solution design across multiple systems.
- Technical discovery with business stakeholders.
Additional or higher skill requirements
- Cloud Architecture · target 5 / 5Source: 3 / 5
- System Design · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Kubernetes · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Stakeholder Management · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Communication · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Cloud Governance · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Python · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Leadership · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
Explore onward paths from Solution Architect
- Enterprise Architect · Advancement
- Cloud Practice Lead · Management
- Security Architect · Specialisation
- Platform Architect · Specialisation
These are differences between role requirements, not a person's assessed gaps. Individual readiness and transition timing require personal evidence and human review.
Incoming paths
Roles with a defined transition towards this profession. Reverse transitions are not implied.
- System Engineer · Specialisation
- Cybersecurity Engineer · Lateral mobility