Inside Xccelerated’s cloud engineering program
There’s a curious paradox playing out in the cloud engineering job market. Recruiters are struggling to fill vacancies in one of today’s biggest industry sectors—yet, increasing numbers of cloud-certified candidates say they never receive a response to their application. If that sounds familiar, you’ve probably spent hours wondering what exactly companies are looking for or how you can rewrite your CV to be more cloud friendly. Maybe you’ve even asked yourself what’s wrong with you. But maybe it’s nothing to do with you—and it’s the system that’s broken. So, we created a new system at Xccelerated.
“Our cloud-engineering training program responds to the biggest corporate transformation challenge facing companies today with an innovative approach that embeds trained cloud professionals within some of the most famous Dutch companies.”
But what do you actually learn?
The 13-month program consists of two significant components. There’s a month-long boot camp followed by a year working onsite at one of our partner companies – with weekly project guidance and supervision from the Xccelerated team.
Our boot camp, which is the same across our different programs, arms you with all the skills you need to succeed in the real world. It’s intense, immersive, and extremely invigorating. First up, there’s a week of software engineering skills, because every cloud engineer needs to know how to write proper software. Then the second week consists mostly of containers and everything surrounding containers and making sure you're able to deploy containerized applications at a large scale at work. We work a lot with Docker and Kubernetes, which are now being regarded as the standard, as everyone converges to these technologies.
A fun new style of engineering
Xccelerated’s cloud engineering program also teaches you how to stay competitive, and to think in the proactive manner that the cloud requires. As organizations migrate to the cloud, people are looking at their infrastructure differently. We don't care as much about a single server anymore; we just care that the entire thing runs smoothly. So, part of being a cloud professional is teaching people to let go of this idea that you need to keep your server alive, but making sure that if it fails, something else will be able to take over.
A lot of the program looks at infrastructure and code, and how you can rebuild your infrastructure based on previous definitions—without having to go through all kinds of menus or actually provisioning hardware yourself. It's a new style of engineering, which is also what makes it a lot of fun.
In order to be a successful cloud engineer, you do need to know a lot about networking, about how operating systems work, how databases work, how we can replicate databases across different zones in different regions around the world.
Who should take the program
Xccelerators who join our cloud engineering program are typically software engineers looking to understand the dynamics of large-scale computing made possible by this exciting new technology. The ideal candidate is someone who has a degree in a relevant area, such as computer science or informatics, plus one to three years of experience within the domain.
With its individualized approach, Xccelerated’s cloud program is an easy way to future-proof your software engineering career with the addition of cloud experience. Even better, it’s a straightforward route to racking up experience at a top brand.
Drop us a line to find out if it’s the program for you!