Most Frequently Asked Topics in Job Descriptions - 15 March 2025

1️⃣ Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) - 95%
  • Azure (most mentioned)
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Hybrid Cloud Environments
  • Cloud Security & IAM (Identity and Access Management)
  • Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) & Well-Architected Framework (WAF)
2️⃣ DevOps & CI/CD - 90%
  • Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline
  • Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
  • Automation of build, test, and deployment pipelines
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
3️⃣ Kubernetes & Containerization - 85%
  • Kubernetes (K8s) & Helm
  • Docker & Container Orchestration (EKS, GKE, AKS)
  • Rancher & OpenShift
  • Serverless Architectures (AWS Lambda, Azure Functions)
4️⃣ Cloud Security & Compliance - 80%
  • IAM (Identity and Access Management)
  • OS Hardening & Security Policies
  • WAF (Web Application Firewall), VPNs, Certificates, Firewalls
  • Security best practices in cloud environments
5️⃣ Monitoring & Logging - 75%
  • Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Datadog
  • Splunk, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor
  • Application & Infrastructure Logging
6️⃣ Scripting & Programming - 70%
  • Python, Bash, PowerShell
  • Go (Golang) for Infrastructure & Backend
  • Java, JavaScript, TypeScript (for application development)
  • API Development (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
7️⃣ Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - 65%
  • Incident Response & Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • System Reliability & High Availability
  • Error Budgets, SLIs, SLOs, SLAs
  • Observability & Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry)
8️⃣ Cost Optimization & Performance Tuning - 60%
  • Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies
  • Autoscaling & Load Balancing
  • Infrastructure Performance Monitoring
9️⃣ Database Management & Big Data - 55%
  • SQL Databases: Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQLServer
  • NoSQL Databases: MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cassandra
  • Data Lakes, Data Pipelines (Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, Kafka)
  • ClickHouse & Big Data Analytics
🔟 Networking & Infrastructure - 50%
  • Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking in AWS/Azure/GCP
  • SD-WAN, Fortinet, ZScaler, Load Balancers
  • VPCs, Subnets, DNS, VPNs, Public & Internal DNS

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