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IT job roles and responsibilities have changed as a cloud-based delivery model has become the norm for IT infrastructure. For the majority of IT jobs, cloud proficiency has become standard, a pre-requisite key word for every resume.

A quick search for cloud skills on job sites like Monster.com or Dice.com reveal more than 800 jobs hits. These numbers have grown exponentially in the last few years.

CIOs are increasingly implementing cloud in their IT environments. Finding the right individuals or educating current employee base is key to their cloud strategys success or failure.

The vice president of IT for a goods distribution company told me few weeks ago that his board told him, Our company is not in business of infrastructure management. This illustrates where the future of hosted IT infrastructure is going. His biggest challenge was not only to find a hosting partner but also to educate his team on cloud services and benefits. He had to hire new employees with a cloud computing background.

He found that along with a move to cloud, he had to rethink some of the roles and responsibilities within his organization. Here are few examples of job roles with additional responsibilities that cloud brings:

1. Vice President of IT/Chief Information Officer

IT executives are now tasked with making the decision on going to cloud versus keeping processes in-house. The VP of IT or CIO is also in charge of outsourcing strategies and choosing between IaaS/PaaS/SaaS cloud models along with public, private or hybrid cloud strategies. And they have to manage budget, IT manpower limits and business requirements. VPs of IT and CIOs will need to assess CAPEX spending versus a monthly recurring cost model in cloud. They have to evaluate cloud providers cost models, services offered and experience in the field.

2. IT Managers/IT Directors

In a cloud environment, IT directors and managers decide on automation needs and standards for cloud services. They work with cloud vendors to assess workloads and governance models.

3. Security Architect

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