Cloud computing has been around for some 60 years but has come a long way over the last decade in particular, bringing with it the capability for businesses of all shapes, sizes and revenues to benefit from faster, cheaper and more scalable IT solutions.
Fewer businesses need physical hardware or the space to store it and the range of cloud services now available makes it fairly easy to find a solution that works for you. Large scale adoption of cloud computing has also forced big software providers to enable multiple integrations and more flexibility.
However, as cloud computing becomes more widespread, and software more sophisticated, more businesses are looking to hire cloud specialists. The problem is, they are hard to come by and employers need to get their heads out of the clouds when it comes to experience expectations.
A cloud type can be public, private, hybrid or community and the service falls into three categories – infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS).
The solution you go for will depend on your business needs – you could opt for a basic storage, networking and power processing option through to office application management and artificial intelligence – and the number of cloud computing providers is huge.
Amazon Web Service and Microsoft Azure are the big names in IaaS; Apprenda and Red Hat lead the PaaS market; and Google Applications and Salesforce are well-know in the SaaS space.
The demand for professionals who can manage these networks professionally is increasing, from both industry employers and managed service providers who have a specific cloud system skills-gap. However, with the development of cloud services and varying levels of adoption from one sector to the next, finding a cloud specialist with a certain level of experience with one type of cloud is sometimes too much to ask.
At Bond Williams Professional Recruitment, our specialist IT & Software Solutions division is finding that many businesses want engineers and analysts with a very specific cloud skillset. While there are suitable candidates out there, employers need to consider the following challenges and potentially adapt their essential criteria.
Taking all of the above into account, employers need to review their criteria, be more realistic with their expectations and be willing to approach cloud specialist recruitment differently.
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If you require support finding a cloud specialist, contact our IT & Software Solutions team today.
Charmaine’s extensive recruitment career started in 2001. Heading up our IT Recruitment Division, Charmaine has an uncanny knack of sourcing uniquely skilled talent for our clients and this is coupled with a tenacity and a great work ethic resulting in many recruitment success stories. Her ability to stay calm when …