Linux Foundation Offers 6-Month Cloud Engineer Certification Bootcamp
… students the courses they need as part of their original accreditations. The problem is that the accreditations often have not caught up with cloud and open source.
“So by the time students check all the boxes for their needed courses, their four years are gone,” he said. “Colleges are aware that there is this gap in skills that people need in any sort of tech job. They realize these aren’t really being covered properly.”
Finding the Right Talent Remains Tough
For hiring managers, this is a universal problem inside companies today, said Seepersad.
“Everybody who is trying to hire tech talent has the same frustration,” he said. “You can hire someone through LinkedIn, but as fast as you hire someone, someone else is being poached from you so it’s a zero sum game.”
The development of the bootcamp curriculum came through listening to the market, he said. The Linux Foundation wanted to cover the right things without making the coursework overwhelming.
The Linux Foundation curated the courses from existing training offerings. Additional supplemental coursework is also accessible for free as part of the program. Students can communicate with each other and their teachers to help succeed.
“Candidates are given a worksheet with course sequences and recommendations on how long they should take to complete,” he said. “They map out their own study plans.”
Lee Marer, CTO of Outcert, said he hears regularly about how hard it is to find cloud engineers. Outcert, a technology education platform that partners with the Linux Foundation, connects with B2C and B2B customers.
“Those customers consistently talk to us about where to get training” for cloud engineer certification and more, said Marer. “It’s not an option anymore. They have to have it. People are requesting this.”
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