How to get From Zero to Hundreds of AWS Certified Engineers

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1 How to get From Zero to Hundreds of AWS Certified Engineers Jonathan Allen, Enterprise Strategist & Evangelist 31 st October 2017

2 PROVEN ENTERPRISE SUCCESS IN THE CLOUD

3 Personal career timeline Energy Sector System Integrator

4 MIGRATING IS A SOLVED TECHNICAL CHALLENGE AWS Server Migration Service AWS Database Migration Service VMWare Cloud on AWS AWS Direct Connect AWS Snowball AWS Snowmobile Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Amazon Kinesis Firehose

5 THE HUMANS AFFECTED BY MIGRATION MIGRATION DECISIONS IMPACT CAREERS FEAR AND AMBIGUITY FOR MANAGEMENT AND STAFF RESISTANCE IS NATURAL

6 THE CHOICE Hire New

7 THE CHOICE Hire New

8 THE CHOICE OR Hire New Train Existing LESS EXPENSIVE SCALABLE FASTER

9 BUT TRAINING IS THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG TRAINING WE NEED A HOLISTIC APPROACH MOTIVATION Autonomy Mastery Purpose

10 MY PERSONAL STORY AND OUR 12-STEP, HOLISTIC APPROACH

11 Step 1 Acceptance THIS IS HAPPENING!

12 Step 2 Training AWS TECHNICAL ESSENTIALS COURSE A BROAD PERSPECTIVE ON OUR FOUNDATIONS

13 Step 3 Safe Hands-on Time THERE IS NO COMPRESSION ALGORITHM FOR EXPERIENCE Andy Jassy AWS CEO

14 Step 4 Two Pizza Team TEAMS OF 8 TO 10 Applications Infrastructure Leadership Security Operations ACHIEVE SPEED AND AGILITY WITH TWO PIZZA TEAMS, WHILE RETAINING REPORTING STRUCTURES

15 Wait, what s a two-pizza team? If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, the team is too large. - Jeff Bezos

16 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Product Manager Swiss Army Knife initially taking on all functions of the Cloud Business Office (CBO). Works directly with business and/or development teams to generate and prioritize backlog of what cloud services need to be delivered to support first-mover applications. Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

17 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Lead Architect Accountable for overall cloud technical architecture; partners with Product Manager to translate customer requirements into technical deliverables; establishes technical direction; does technical delivery as well. Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

18 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Leadership Infrastructure Engineers Provide integrations with corporate datacenters, shared cloud infrastructure services, Works on engineering and continuous improvement of infrastructure stacks, templates, images, and other artifacts. Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

19 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Infrastructure Leadership Security Engineers Provide standardized offerings to facilitate ongoing security and compliance within application stacks and the cloud environment overall; Integrates security standards and controls products and offerings. Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

20 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Infrastructure Leadership Security Operations Engineers Provide outcomes to facilitate the successful deployment of applications on infrastructure stacks: artifact/code repositories, upgrades, patching. Also responsible for operational health: metrics, logging, alerting, inventory, capacity, and billing/tag management. Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

21 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Infrastructure Leadership Security Application Engineers Representatives of the first-mover application teams. Work closely with the Tiger Team to provide the voice of the customer as cloud services are being developed. Operations Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

22 Staff your 2 Pizza Team Applications Infrastructure Leadership Security Operations Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

23 Applications Infrastructure Leadership Security Operations Cloud Adoption Framework People Perspective

24 Step 5 Bring in Experts PAIR PROGRAM WITH PARTNER AIM FOR SELF SUFFICIENCY

25 Step 6 Make it Real SHIP SOMETHING IMPORTANT, BUT NOT CRITICAL BUILD YOUR PRODUCT CREATE TWO PIZZA TEAM SUPPORT YOUR PRODUCT

26 Step 7 Scale the Learning by Splitting Teams TEAMS OF 8 TO 10 Applications Infrastructure Leadership NEW TEAMS COMBINE EXPERTS & NOVICES Security Operations

27 Step 8 Certification START DOWN THE PATH TO CERTIFICATION SPECIALTY ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONAL TRAIN TO SUIT YOUR LEARNING STYLE: Classroom Online

28 Step 9 Scaling Certification and Associated Leadership CRITICAL MASS: REACH 10% CERTIFIED ACHIEVE THE HALO EFFECT 10%

29 Step 10 Recognize and Reward Expertise Loudly! RECOGNIZE MASTERY

30 Step 11 Take the Challenge Yourself

31 Step 12 Create a Unifying Job Family Portfolio TRANSFORMATION EXAMPLE JOB TITLES Technical Program Manager (TPM) AWS Infrastructure Engineer (IE) Software Quality Engineer (SQE) OLD WORLD TO NEW WORLD TITLES Software Development Engineer (SDE) Security Engineer Engineering Manager

32 Start the Title Process Only Organize and Plan KNOWLEDGE SUPPORT STRUCTURE Training Hands-on Time Make it real Certification Scaling certification Acceptance Bring in experts Recognise and reward Take the challenge yourself Two Pizza Team Scale the Learning by Splitting Teams Create a Unifying Job Family Portfolio

33 @jonathanallen02 REMEMBER ALL OF YOUR ASSUMED CONSTRAINTS ARE DEBATABLE. A 12 Step Program to Get from Zero to Hundreds of AWS- Certified