Curriculum Updates 2

[jaylong255]

Research the market again and make sure our course of study is well-aligned.

Winners:

• AWS Infrastructure
• Expressed as Terraform
• Deployed by Ansible
• Orchestrated by Kubernetes with Helm charts
• Accessed through OpenVPN
• Observed by Grafana powered by Prometheus
• Events Streamed by RabbitMQ, then upgrade to Kafka when time allows.

Top Hits from the Market:

• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• DevOps
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Kafka
• Linux
• Terraform
• Ansible
• VPN

Good Hits that I'm Choosing to Bump Up:

• Cloudflare
• Event Streaming - Kafka, RabbitMQ
• This whole post for a security role is good.
• Helm Charts
• Python
• Scripting - Bash / Python
• Chef
• Amazon SageMaker
• SSL Certificate
• AWS Lambda
• ELK Stack: Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana
• Elasticsearch

Trending

• Infrastructure as Code
• Performance / Performance Testing
• Microservices
• CI/CD
• Automated Testing
• React
• Node

Networking and Security:

• Security
• Networking
• SIEM
• SOC
• MITRE ATT&CK
• Threat Intelligence / Threat Detection / Threat Response, Triage
• Vulnerabilities / Vulnerability Assessment
• Encryption
• Compliance
• Pentesting
• Security Policies and Protocols (Probably procedures)
• Firewalls

Database Management:

• Database Backups
• Database Migration (Not sure if they mean structure migrations in the app code or data migrations from one database to another.)
• Data Integrity (Maybe they mean File Integrity. They might also mean Data Protection)

Other Mentions:

• AI
• OpenAI
• Chatbot
• Wowza Streaming Engine
• Ubuntu
• AWS - Cost Optimization
• Networking - Routing traffic from one region to another internationally.
• Networking - Dell PowerEdge T320 connection issues. This was in Houston after the hurricane so maybe not as relevant since it's completely onprem and probably related to wires and physical damage.
• CISCO Firewalls
• CISCO Networking Equipment
• AWS - Elasticity, Security,
• AWS RDS
• Ubuntu
• NATS Messaging including the respective ecosystem for all cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Security Patches
• Monitoring / Observability - Dashboards, Alerts,
• Runbooks for incidents
• Mentorship and Knowledge Sharing (This is a good sale for RAG)
• GCP
• Azure
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• Ubuntu Chiseled Images
• Kubecost
• Redis
• MEAN/MERN
• Java
• Spring Boot
• Maven
• Junit
• Spring Batch
• Spring API
• Windows
• Linux
• Mac
• Load Balancing

Certifications:

Some jobs are starting to consider one of these to be mandatory.

• CompTIA Security+
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) (Multiple mentions)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Security Operations Center (SOC)
• CISCO Certification
• Cisco Certified Expert (CCIE) certification
• CEH
• OSCP