JD:
A “Unicorn” is someone who started in traditional (physical/on-prem) networking and understands switches, routers, firewalls, WAN, etc and migrated to the cloud, and now has the cloud experience (cloud network) explained below.
Each set is prioritized.
Cloud Network Engineer skill list:
· Cloud Network
1. AWS (Priority #1) – Must have most of these
1. SG's
2. Subnets
3. Routes
4. TGW
5. DX
6. VPN
7. Cloud-WAN
2. Azure (Priority #2.5) – Nice to Have
1. VWAN
2. VNets
3. FW
4. VPN
5. Routing/BGP
6. NSG's
7. Express-Route
· Cloud Infrastructure – (Priority #2) – Nice to Have
3. Automation Scripting
1. Terraform
2. Python
3. Ansible
4. Troubleshooting
1. CloudWatch
· Legacy Networking (Priority #3) – Unicorn
1. Palo
1. Policies, Zones, Objects, NATing
2. Routing
1. VR's
2. Static
1. Path Heath Monitoring
3. BGP
2. Cisco
1. Routing
1. Static
2. BGP
2. Switching
1. VLANs
2. Port configuration
· Security (Priority #4) – Nice to Have
1. Zero Trust
2. Purdue
3. FW Rules (Palo Alto)