Presented to the SUST Alumni, mainly a group of professional developers.
May be beneficial for anyone who wants to step up from a developer to Solution architect,
1. HOW TO BE A CLOUD
ARCHITECT
DIDARUL HOQ
SUST CSE 96 ALUMNI
2. BRIEF HISTORY
• 1999: Passed Pascal lab at 3rd attempt
• 2003: MZI: we cannot measure some of your quality in our system
• 2004-5: Unilever Service desk, Dell Server support
• 2006: Joined GP as Odd one out
• 2011: First Bangladeshi company to get ISO 20000 and ISO 27001 cert
• 2012: Short term assignment in Thailand, Norway and Hungary
• 2013-14: Expat in Malaysia
• 2016: Jobless 6 Month in Australia
• 2017: Joined Hybrid Cloud Program at the Big4 Bank in Australia
3. HOW TO BE A CLOUD ARCHITECT – ECO SYSTEM
• Director
• Service owner
• Solution Architect
• Project Manager/Scrum
Master
• Business Analyst
• Programmer
• Tester
• PMO
4. AGILE FRAMEWORK :SCRUM TEAM
Scrum Master
Product Owner
Technical SME
Architects
Information Security
Risk
Tester
Epic
Feature
User story
Story point
PI Planning
Daily Stand up
Scrum of Scrums
Burn Chart
Retrospective
Jira and Confluence Tool
6. CLOUD ARCHITECT BASIC SKILLS
• Application architecture
• Automation and orchestration
• Governance
• I&O (input and output)
• Integration architecture
• ITSM/ITOM
• Outsourcing and external hosting
• Information Security
7. A DAY OF A CLOUD ARCHITECT
• Investigate latest technology
• Document, review and agreed on the Functional and Non-Functional requirements
• Sign off from the service owner
• Dependency and impact on other technologies and business
• Negotiate with the vendor
• Solution design
• Oversee implementation
• Own and Solve problems
8. USE CASES
• NSX and DBraaS Tags-
• Collect VM through a script
• VM Restore
• Access to vCenter
• Data recovery compliance
• SQL 2000, 7
9. RARE SKILL
• Splunk
• Enterprise Chef
• IAM
• Terraform
• Python, JSON,YAML
• Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible
• Along with ITIL and Agile Framework
• CI/CD automation
10. CLOUD COMPUTING
• On demand self service
• Broad Network Access, “Always on ,Always accessible”
• Resource pooling
• Rapid elasticity
• Measured Service
18. CHALLENGES- YOU WON’T GET IT ANYWHERE
• Expensive
• Applications are not ready
• There is nothing in IT as “ Lift and Shift”
• Hire resources
• Not solving business problem, introducing new technology
• Good for startup but not for the Enterprise
• Appropriate Operating Model
• Supplier Management
19. JOB HUNTING IN GLOBAL SPACE - RESUME
• Key words
• Result driven
• Number game
• Achievements
• Two pager
• Relevant certificates vs all
• Last two roles vs all
• Major projects
20. STRATEGY TO MAKE YOU AS A GLOBAL EXPERT
• Big Picture
• Design in detail
• Manage production under continuous change
• Transferrable skills
• Research
• Always raise your hands
• People helping people
• Social antenna
• Domain expertise
• Cultural fit –overqualified