Everything you need to know about the cloud Interview with Reggie Davis

Everything you need to know about the cloud Interview with Reggie Davis Contact Reggie: Website: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY942QTjllyVm8Af6O1nPHA Twitter: https://twitter.com/coolblknerd Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/coolblknerd Reggie's bio: Have you thought about transitioning to tech or having a career in the cloud? Well, I'm Reggie, aka "CoolBlkNerd", a self-taught Site Reliability Engineer, hip-hop head, and pop culture nerd. Finding my way into the tech industry has been quite a journey and I'm here to share my story to help guide you in your journey to working in the cloud. From Kubernetes to imposter syndrome, becoming a cloud engineer can be challenging from a technical and mental perspective. We're going to fight through technical roadblocks, as well as, mental ones too as we become the best cloud engineers we can become! ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• --------- Contents of this interview -------- 00:05 - Intro 00:51 - Du'An introduces Reggie 02:27 - How did you get started? 04:14 - You started in software development, right? Did you self-study or go to college or a bootcamp? How did you get started? 05:12 - How long was that journey? 05:48 - During the process of learning software development, did you start on frontend or backend programming, how did you start? 07:13 - How long in that position before you started focusing on learning AWS? 09:40 - You pick up things quick and that's a dope trait to have 10:21 - Did you have imposter syndrome coming from a different field into IT? 12:27 - How long did it take you to get the AWS SAA certification? 13:45 - How did you remove those distractions and buckle down to focus while working a full-time job? 16:39 - What made you learn AWS instead of Azure? 17:49 - For someone looking to get one of those certs, does that still reign true today? 19:17 - At what point did you make a transition after getting that certification? 21:00 - A month after getting the certification you went and got your first job, what job was that and what was the job title? 21:34 - What skills are needed for a cloud engineer? 24:01 - Did your first position give you a lot of that knowledge or did the certification give you that knowledge? 26:04 - What are some entry level cloud job titles? 28:16 - How did you apply for that position, where you confident or did you just apply for everything? Was it an intimidating interview? 32:09 - You mentioned that you don't know what makes you unique 35:05 - What are cloud interviews like? 36:58 - Do you need to know about that companies' application or is it just general Linux, containers, Kubernetes? 40:14 - Going back to your first cloud engineer role, how long were you in that position? 40:25 - At what point did you say: "I'm ready to go the next level?" 43:23 - Did you get a new cert or did you just apply for a new position? 45:43 - In your cloud engineer position, how did you go about levelling up in your career? Was it through projects or certain technologies you were working on? 49:03 - A lot of engineers and developers need to keep the business in mind when they're in these positions. What's your thoughts? 51:00 - How do you get the business to see the problems you solve? 53:39 - About a year and half later you moved to your new position, what position was that? 54:23 - How long did you stay in that position? 55:35 - In your company, how many SREs are there? 56:51 - If company XYZ has an application, will there be an SRE for each microservice of that application or an SRE for the application 58:45 - What's the typical day-to-day like and what are the typical responsibilities of an SRE? 01:01:00 - Where does the cloud engineer/DevOps engineer come into play in that discussion? 01:04:28 - What services does your company offer as for IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services. 01:06:21 - Can you touch on sys ops cloud engineer? 01:07:23 - Could you go more into details about dashboards? Are there tools/platforms people need to learn? 01:09:00 - How much did your software development knowledge help you in the DevOps world? 01:10:52 - What language should someone learn? 01:13:16 - How much programming or scripting do you actually use in your day-to-day with cloud? 01:19:15 - What resources did you use to train and any project you built to become an SRE? 01:21:13 - Do these platforms have any projects? 01:24:20 - Any words of encouragement or advice for the audience? 01:24:56 - Outro Du'An Lightfoot on Social Media: https://twitter.com/labeveryday DISCLAIMER: This video and description contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, I’ll receive a small commission. This helps support the channel and allows us to continue to make videos like this. Thank you for the support! #LabEveryday #Cloud #ReggieDavis