The video provides an overview of the role of a Solutions Architect and how to become one. Solutions Architects work with clients to meet their business requirements through technology. They identify the client's business objectives and explore various technologies that can help achieve these goals.
To become a Solutions Architect, one can start by acquiring AWS certifications such as the Solutions Architect Associate and Solutions Architect Professional. These certifications provide a broad understanding of various technologies.
Experience in the industry is crucial, and it usually takes time to accumulate the necessary experience. However, there are other starting points like roles in Cloud Support Engineering or Technical Account Management. These roles provide a stepping stone to more senior roles like Solutions Architecture.
Key skills for a Solutions Architect include hands-on experience, business analysis skills, interpersonal skills, and broad technology skills. Knowledge of on-premises technology, compute, storage, networking, databases, analytics, Big Data, machine learning, automation, containers, and serverless technologies is essential.
Programming languages like Python and Node.js, as well as DevOps and CI/CD tools, are also important. Knowledge of Linux, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Terraform is particularly beneficial for those working in the cloud space.
Experience can be gained through training courses, online projects, pre-configured labs, and boot camps. These methods provide hands-on experience, practical skills, and a structured learning path.
Overall, the path to becoming a Solutions Architect requires gaining a broad set of skills, acquiring industry experience, and building hands-on experience.
1. Solutions architecture is a popular profession that can lead to a high income.
2. The speaker has been working in the industry for over 25 years and has held roles such as Senior Solutions architect and Enterprise architect.
3. Solutions architects help businesses meet their requirements through technology. They work with clients from various industry verticals.
4. AWS offers certifications that can be useful for those wanting to become a Solutions architect. These include the Solutions architect associate, developer associate, and sysops administrator associate.
5. To become a Solutions architect, one needs to have experience in the industry. It usually takes some time to build up the necessary experience.
6. Key skills needed to become a Solutions architect include hands-on experience, business analysis skills, strong interpersonal skills, and broad technology skills.
7. Solutions architects often work with a variety of different technologies, including on-premises technology, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud platform, and more.
8. Knowledge of compute storage, networking, databases, analytics, Big Data, machine learning, automation, containers, serverless, and programming languages like Python and Node.js is important for Solutions architects.
9. Solutions architects also need to understand Linux, as it is the operating system of the cloud.
10. Infrastructure as code, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, and programming languages like Python and Node.js are also important for Solutions architects.
11. There are several ways to gain experience and skills to become a Solutions architect, including training courses, online projects, pre-configured labs, and boot camps.