Starting your career in cloud from IT

Welcome to the first episode of Cracking The Google Cloud Career, where we show how you can use your existing skill sets to reach a career in Cloud! In this episode, Forrest Brazeal shows how you can go from a “traditional” IT career to a cloud or DevOps engineering role. Watch to learn how you can advance your career with ​​Google Cloud certifications and much more!

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Why choose a cloud career?
1:36 - How to get cloud experience?
2:08 - Step 1: Exploit your “unfair advantage”
3:00 - How to “Cloud-ify” a skill
5:17 - Step 2: Boost targeted skills
9:13 - Step 3: Consider a “stepping stone” role
11:55 - Wrap up

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[Cuervaud]

whaoo, I'm impressed by the quality of the speech! Super clear presentation.

[severtone]

I am mesmerized by the eloquence of this man. This was easy to follow and non-threatening for a legacy IT guy..lol... Thank you. :)

[mariusrusenas]

Loved it! Definitely made me thing about my skills and what I should improve. Keep these coming!

[prashantrai]

🤓Very Informative.... Gives a positive boost... Thanks

[KenSherman]

His name is Forrest Brazeal. What a cool name!😎 <thinks a forest in Brazil>

P.S. I'm sure he gets that alot...0:15-0:20 "constantly getting asked versions of the same question."😜

10:35
Can TPM also be a Technical Project Manager role that can help define your topic?

11:33
Interestingly, I didn't know you worked for PluralSight & acloudguru!

[AakashDhekane]

Thank you for this awesome advice, which learning path/starting steps would you suggest for the following transitions:

1. Data Analyst to Customer Engineer, Smart Analytics

2. Data Analyst to Analytical Consultant

[khanyasser]

Hiiii i’m oil and gas and now prepping for GCP certificate

[nukemall]

Amazing content from Forrest, as always!

[tareksaadi]

We need another video about how to transfer to SRE from IT too

[ef]

Can you help us with a video explaining how someone with no IT experience can join google

[tibor]

This was an excellent video, thank you.

[Din-ueyj]

I work as IT in an govenment entity I put on production systems using kubernetes, but because of the laws, we can't use cloud computing from abroad so we will do everything on premises. Sadly I'm just making 500$us /month 🥺, well it's my first year.

[Kattarhindusanatan]

Information video should be like this. Liked it

[hausofaspen]

Great video...lot's of good information. Thank you.

[marciodanilo]

Thank you very much for these tips. Awesome video, strict to the point and very clear information.

[YlverMoreno]

What is the entry salary? With no experience... Thanks 👍

[laerzzyziz]

If this channel get 1m subs, does google give itself a YouTube award?

[masx]

What timeframe in number of years would you consider as early in your career?

[vgshadow]

It would be great if we also get ' how to move to SRE cloud role ' video

[zokymzd]

I love the posters in the background. How can I get my hands on that traveling by cloud poster in the background.