"Today, it's rare for companies to adopt a cloud-free approach," says Christopher Quigley, technical consultant at FRG, a cloud computing recruitment agency.As a result, more and more data center staff must adapt to the trend of gradual transition to hybrid cloud environments.
Quigley added that the data center employment situation is evolving.But many IT specialists say data center IT staff can take measures and strategies to keep up with industry needs and career changes.
More sophisticated, newer skills.
However, the impact of cloud deployments on enterprise data centers depends on how satisfied they are with cloud computing.Quigley says data center engineers often have no access to cloud solutions when businesses are migrating to the cloud on a large scale.Instead, data center technicians should focus on backend configuration, multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), Active Directory interconnection, and hardware management.
"If the company that is in the company chooses to provide services to the engineers of the cloud computing provider, then the job responsibilities of the data center staff may be left to administrative responsibilities," he said.Learning and acquiring new skills, such as Active Directory, can provide a technical person with an opportunity to promote their career development.
While Quigley thinks the work of many data center technicians is more manageable, others believe that the work of these people will become more complex.
The data center supplier, Flexential, was founded last year by the merger of Peak 10 and ViaWest, which mainly develops and operates data centers.The company executive vice President Jeff Biggs said, operational data center of company is reducing simple tasks, such as replacement tape, simple backup and monitoring, and let the staff to implement more security, tuning, and knowledge base management related tasks."This means that companies may need new employees with more advanced skills in these areas," he said.
Dice IT work service department's chief technology officer Klavs Miller adds, when organizations adopt cloud computing, data center staff's role could move in two directions: one is the role of the data center staff become more specialized, mandatory implementation technology, as well as the firmware, and hardware maintenance;The second is to master more software-based cloud computing technologies, because the data center hardware and infrastructure will be abstracting.
What new skills are needed?
Leon Adato, head of SolarWinds, a network and systems management provider, says data center IT staff can continue their careers by participating in cloud migration.They should also seek certification related to cloud computing.He said that current Cloud computing certifications include CompTIA Cloud +, MCSE Cloud platform and infrastructure, VMware VCP6-Cloud, AWS certified solution architect, and EMC Cloud architect for dell EMC.
Dice's Miller suggests that data center technicians need access to key cloud platforms and infrastructure as well as code (IaC), as well as extensive knowledge of other DevOps specifications.He says Terraform, Puppet, Docker and related technologies are also helpful for IT staff learning.
Biggs suggests data center technical staff to improve their competitiveness in the virtual technology, and access to Internet skills and the knowledge of the IT infrastructure library (ITIL) framework, the framework is focused on making IT services consistent with business requirements.
Adato has other recommendations for data center technologists: learn to be a data scientist and develop your own logical thinking and appropriate analytical skills.
"Learning about interface knowledge will also be another career choice," he said.Understand the interfaces and adjust as they change.IT people don't always need to learn new technologies, but IT is necessary to improve existing scripting skills.
Adato adds that the success of many IT professionals will depend on whether they are experts or generalists.According to a 2017 SolarWinds IT trends report for IT professionals, many organizations use two or three cloud computing providers of cloud services, while one in 10 organization an organization using 10 or more cloud services.
"As long as IT professionals are skilled enough to do the job well and have a wide range of expertise, they can move to other platforms and vertical jobs," Adato suggests.
However, not everyone can adapt to the seamless transition between data centers and cloud computing technicians.Dealing with cloud computing data center operators DataBank company business experts, director of the company's data center facilities Kelly Lane said, "this is a completely independent skill sets, like aircraft mechanics and pilots, is usually a separate roles.So IT's not easy for IT people to completely transform and adapt to new technologies."
"Data center technicians should focus on server management, network management, database management, and security skills," Lane suggests.
But other IT specialists argue that learning new skills or gaining new certification can improve pay, or make data center IT workers more attractive in the job market.Miller said, if the staff work hard the professional knowledge necessary to become experts data center, or become a broader enterprise engineers of various cloud platform skills, then the compensation will improve more.
Quigley recommends that data center IT staff participate in the migration to the cloud.After the business migration, some data center employees can stay in the company to continue their work, or they can provide services in other companies.
"Either way, the experience gained through participating in business migration will enhance their skills," Quigley said.In the short term, and accept what is cloud computing for data center workers could be formidable, because they will lose some control over access to the system, but in the long run, from suppliers to get rich experience has shown that on the career and financially is beneficial."
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