See the top technical and behavioral skills and phrases desired by employers.
Technical Skills/Phrases
Core technical skills and phrases employers request most often.
Designing cloud architectures around business needs and provider-neutral principlesEstablishing landing zones and account or subscription governanceOperating virtual machines, serverless computing and other managed compute servicesAdministering operating systems and diagnosing system-level faultsConfiguring routing, private connectivity, name resolution and load balancingManaging identities, least-privilege access and secretsSecuring cloud configurations and applying compliance controlsOperating managed databases and choosing object or block storageRunning containers and managing cluster workloadsBuilding reusable infrastructure as code and controlling configuration driftPlanning cloud migrations with tested cutover and rollback proceduresUsing metrics, logs, traces and alerts to understand service healthInvestigating incidents and identifying their underlying causesDesigning resilient services and testing backup restoration and disaster recoveryTuning workload performance and planning capacityManaging cloud budgets, cost allocation and resource efficiencyAutomating routine operations with reviewed scripts and deployment pipelinesWriting architecture records, operating runbooks and service handoversChecking AI-assisted infrastructure changes before deployment
Behavioral Skills/Phrases
Professional skills and phrases that help candidates collaborate, communicate, and grow into senior roles.
Explaining service risks and tradeoffs to nontechnical colleaguesClarifying business requirements before choosing a solutionCoordinating work across infrastructure, development, security and finance teamsPrioritizing work by customer impact and urgencyFollowing a problem through to resolution and reviewGiving calm, clear updates during service incidentsEscalating risks early with useful contextUsing feedback to improve decisions and working habitsHelping colleagues learn through patient explanation and knowledge sharingQuestioning unsafe assumptions respectfullyManaging dependencies and communicating changes to commitmentsRecognizing knowledge gaps and seeking help before taking risky actionStakeholder alignmentService mindsetProfessional judgmentAttention to detailDependabilityAdaptabilityAnalytical thinkingInitiativeActive listeningAccountabilityTeamworkContinuous improvement
