How to get from Zero to Hundreds of Certified Engineers

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Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist
31st October 2017
How to get From Zero to Hundreds
of AWS Certified Engineers

PROVEN ENTERPRISE SUCCESS IN THE CLOUD

Personal career timeline
System
Integrator
Energy
Sector
1996 1998 2000 2017

MIGRATING IS A SOLVED TECHNICAL CHALLENGE
AWS Server
Migration Service
AWS Database
Migration Service
Amazon S3
Transfer Acceleration
VMWare Cloud
on AWS
AWS
Snowball
AWS
Snowmobile
AWS
Direct Connect
Amazon
Kinesis Firehose

THE HUMANS AFFECTED BY MIGRATION
F E A R A N D A M B I G U I T Y F O R
M A N A G E M E N T A N D S T A F F
R E S I S T A N C E I S N A T U R A L
M I G R A T I O N D E C I S I O N S
I M P A C T C A R E E R S

THE CHOICE
Hire New

THE CHOICE
Hire New Train Existing
O R
L E S S E X P E N S I V E
S C A L A B L E
F A S T E R

BUT TRAINING IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
W E N E E D A H O L I S T I C A P P R O A C H
TRAINING
M O T I V A T I O N
Autonomy
Mastery
Purpose

MY PERSONAL STORY
A N D O U R 1 2 - S T E P , H O L I S T I C A P P R O A C H

© 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.© 2017, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
THIS IS HAPPENING!
Step 1 Acceptance

AWS TECHNICAL ESSENTIALS COURSE
Step 2 Training
A B R O A D P E R S P E C T I V E O N O U R F O U N D A T I O N S

THERE IS NO COMPRESSION
ALGORITHM FOR EXPERIENCE
Step 3 Safe Hands-on Time
Andy Jassy
AWS CEO

Step 4 Two Pizza Team
A C H I E V E S P E E D A N D A G I L I T Y
W I T H T W O P I Z Z A T E A M S , W H I L E
R E T A I N I N G R E P O R T I N G S T R U C T U R E S
T E A M S O F 8 T O 1 0
Applications
Infrastructure
Leadership
Security
Operations

Wait, what’s a two-pizza team?
“If you can't feed a team with two pizzas,
the team is too large.”
- Jeff Bezos

Staff your 2 Pizza Team
Product Manager
“Swiss Army Knife” initially taking on all
functions of the Cloud Business Office (CBO).
Works directly with business and/or
development teams to generate and prioritize
backlog of what cloud services need to be
delivered to support first-mover applications.
Cloud Adoption Framework – People Perspective

Lead Architect
Accountable for overall cloud technical
architecture; partners with Product Manager to
translate customer requirements into technical
deliverables; establishes technical direction;
does technical delivery as well.

Infrastructure Engineers
Provide integrations with corporate
datacenters, shared cloud infrastructure
services, Works on engineering and
continuous improvement of infrastructure
stacks, templates, images, and other artifacts.Leadership

Security Engineers
Provide standardized offerings to facilitate
ongoing security and compliance within
application stacks and the cloud environment
overall; Integrates security standards and
controls products and offerings.LeadershipInfrastructure

Operations Engineers
Provide outcomes to facilitate the successful
deployment of applications on infrastructure
stacks: artifact/code repositories, upgrades,
patching. Also responsible for operational
health: metrics, logging, alerting, inventory,
capacity, and billing/tag management.
LeadershipInfrastructure Security

Application Engineers
Representatives of the first-mover application
teams. Work closely with the Tiger Team to
provide the voice of the customer as cloud
services are being developed.LeadershipInfrastructure Security
Operations

Operations
Applications

Step 5 Bring in Experts
P A I R P R O G R A M W I T H P A R T N E R
A I M F O R S E L F S U F F I C I E N C Y

Step 6 Make it Real
C R E A T E
T W O P I Z Z A
T E A M
B U I L D Y O U R P R O D U C T
S U P P O R T
Y O U R
P R O D U C T
SHIP SOMETHING IMPORTANT, BUT NOT CRITICAL

T E A M S O F 8 T O 1 0
Applications
Infrastructure
Leadership
Security
Operations
NE W T E A MS COMBINE
E X PE RT S & NOVICE S
Step 7 Scale the Learning by Splitting Teams

Step 8 Certification
A S S O C I A T E
START DOWN THE PATH TO CERTIFICATION
S P E C I A L T Y
P R O F E S S I O N A L
T R A I N T O S U I T Y O U R L E A R N I N G S T Y L E :
Classroom Online

10%
CRITICAL MASS: REACH 10% CERTIFIED
A C H I E V E T H E
H A L O E F F E C T
Step 9 Scaling Certification and Associated Leadership

Step 10 Recognize and Reward Expertise – Loudly!
RECOGNIZE MASTERY

Step 11 Take the Challenge Yourself

Step 12 Create a Unifying Job Family Portfolio
TRANSFORMATION
O L D W O R L D T O N E W W O R L D T I T L E S
Technical Program Manager (TPM)
AWS Infrastructure Engineer (IE)
Software Quality Engineer (SQE)
Software Development Engineer (SDE)
Security Engineer
Engineering Manager
E X A M P L E J O B T I T L E S

Title Only
Training
Hands-on Time
Make it real
Certification
Scaling certification
Acceptance
Bring in experts
Recognise and reward
Take the challenge yourself
Two Pizza Team
Scale the Learning by
Splitting Teams
Create a Unifying Job
Family Portfolio
Start the
Process
Organize and Plan
KNOWLEDGE STRUCTURESUPPORT

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