V Skill HF-D7.5-001 sector-specific 11 skills
Using cloud platforms
Sets up and manages services in a cloud environment, arranges permissions and costs and chooses between available service types based on requirements.
How hrmforce measures this
- Assessment method
- Knowledge test · rho 0.40 (SD 0.13)
- hrmforce instrument
- Knowledge test (client-specific)
- Trainability
- high
- Demand outlook 2026 to 2030
- rising
Test of declarative job knowledge, usually assembled per client.
Behavioural anchors
| Level | Behaviour at this level |
|---|---|
| N1 Guided | Uses existing cloud services as instructed and reports unusual behaviour or unexpected costs to the administrator. works under supervision and follows instruction · routine, one variable at a time · own task |
| N3 Proficient | Independently configures cloud services for an application, arranges permissions and backups and keeps costs and usage in view. sets own approach and seeks input proactively · several variables, some ambiguity · own team or process |
| N5 Leading | Determines the organisation's cloud strategy and decides which workloads are placed where. sets the standard and the policy · strategic, under high uncertainty · organisation, value chain or profession |
N2 and N4 are deliberately not anchored. Raters place them between the anchors, following the O*NET convention.
Underlying skills
These skills inherit the assessment route and the behavioural anchors of this construct.
| T | Skill | Definition | Demand outlook 2026 to 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| T | Microsoft Azure Azure | Provisions services in Azure with subscriptions, resource groups, networks and permissions and monitors usage and cost. | rising |
| T | Amazon Web Services AWS | Provisions services in aws with accounts, networks, storage and permissions and manages them through console or command line. | rising |
| T | Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud | Provisions services in Google Cloud with projects, permissions and networks and manages storage and compute. | rising |
| T | Docker Docker | Packages applications in containers with a build file, manages images and runs services with fixed configuration. | rising |
| T | Kubernetes Kubernetes | Manages containers in Kubernetes with deployments, services, configuration and automatic scaling of workload. | rising |
| T | Terraform Terraform | Describes cloud resources in Terraform, manages the state file and applies changes in a controlled way after a plan. | rising |
| V | Applying infrastructure as code Infrastructure as code · IaC | Defines infrastructure in version controlled code so environments are built repeatably and identically. | rising |
| V | Controlling cloud costs Cloud cost management · FinOps | Monitors cloud cost per service and team, detects unnecessary consumption and proposes measures to save. | rising |
| V | Configuring cloud permissions Cloud IAM | Assigns roles and permissions in a cloud environment following least privilege and reviews them periodically. | rising |
| K | Choosing a cloud service model IaaS · PaaS · SaaS | Chooses in a justified way between infrastructure, platform or software as a service based on requirements, effort and cost. | stable |
| V | Deploying a serverless function Serverless | Builds and publishes a function that reacts to an event without managing a server. | rising |