Application as Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer is a profession in IT / Cloud and Platform, typically entered via BSc Computer Science FH. Anyone applying here should know these requirements and pitfalls - specific to the Swiss job market, not generic.

Technical Requirements

• Azure or AWS at an operational level - Azure clearly dominates in Switzerland
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Bicep
• Kubernetes and container operations
• Identity and access management concepts
• Understanding of data residency and compliance - central in banking and healthcare

Personal Requirements

• Cost awareness - cloud bills are a management topic
• Willingness to think operations and development together
• Precision with permissions

Common Mistakes in the Application

• Certificates without practical context - AZ-104 alone convinces no one without an operated environment behind it
• Not a word about data residency and regulation, even though this is often the key issue in Switzerland
• Only technologies are listed instead of describing operational responsibility
• Cost optimization is not mentioned, even though it is explicitly part of the job in many postings

Typical Employers in Switzerland

Swisscom, Zühlke, Adnovum, UBS, SIX, Roche, Novartis, Axpo, federal administration.

Excerpt from a Cover Letter

Dear Mr. Vogt Over the past two years at my current employer, I helped grow the Azure landscape from three to fourteen subscriptions and switched the entire deployment process to Terraform. A manual process that used to take several days became a reproducible pipeline running in under an hour.

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