Question: What does Cloud Engineer mean?

Chris Neale answered on 5 Nov 2018:

Good question. Starting with what Cloud is.
You need 3 things for a cloud
1. A pool of resources, computing, memory and storage(disk). So like a bunch of computers but pooled together.
2. A way for users to order/request their own “thing”. That could be a Server to run things on. A website to host their company pages on, or a database to keep records in.
3. Billing automatically for only what they use. So if they request a website to test, use it for 4 hours, then they only get billed for 4 hours.

A cloud engineer either supports, sets up or designs what customers might need in a cloud.
One example would be Black Friday.
If Amazon or someone only had 1 webserver. It would break with the traffic on Black Friday or Christmas. So there is something called auto-scaling. Which automatically creates new web servers when the first one gets too busy, and then deletes them when it gets quiet.

So it’s computing on servers and websites and scripting and coding those for our customers.