Thirtieth Google Cloud Jumpstart Session Recap: 2022 Year In Review

This most likely would be the final GCP Jumpstart entry of 2022 unless I write about my New Year’s goals. I would like to thank each and every single one of you for reading my GCP Jumpstart series. Your patronage matters to me because I want to chronicle my experiences and help you make the best decisions for your career as possible.

The GCP Jumpstart Made Me A Better Cloud Professional

I will say that continuing my participation pass the exam prep with first the career development sessions and now the mentoring sessions, have helped me better understand what a cloud job actually entails. If I would have just stopped at the exam prep portion, I would have understood the job requirements.

The career development sessions help me learn the different cloud roles outside of cloud engineer and cloud architect. It also crystallizes what exactly what a customer engineer, partner engineer and site reliability experts are. I will credit Google will being clear since its foundation is search. Without the career development sessions, I would not have understood the cloud roles.

The mentoring session puts me in touch with actual GCP cloud engineers. I learn that Terraform is used by large enterprises and that as a cloud engineer…