Seven of the hottest new IT jobs

In the era of cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, the digital transformation of enterprises and individuals is a severe challenge faced by all IT professionals. At the same time, new market demands, opportunities, and career positions are constantly emerging.

For those IT professionals whose bodies are about to be hollowed out, the road to the future is right under their feet, but the cost of making wrong decisions is also rising over time (10 IT professions that will be eliminated by artificial intelligence). How can we step on the right node on the dance mat of the IT Great Leap Forward era where "White Walkers" and "Dragon Mother" are rampant? This requires every IT person to not only bury their heads in the mill, but also look up and see the road. When God closes a door, he will also open a window. The following are the seven most popular new IT professions in the future collected and sorted from professional social and recruitment websites such as LinkedIn and Glassdoor. I hope it can inspire others and bring inspiration:

1. Cloud computing cost control officer/bargainer

With the popularity of SaaS cloud services, companies using cloud computing services such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud are in urgent need of professionals to manage and control cloud computing costs. Cloud computing bargaining specialists need to be familiar with the tools and services of major cloud computing platforms, be able to help companies develop the best "cloud computing procurement plan", and be able to negotiate with cloud service providers to obtain better cloud computing service terms and prices. At the same time, they can also keenly discover the idle resources of cloud service providers to obtain additional discounts for companies.

Joe Kinsella, CTO of CloudHealth Technology, believes that the importance of cloud negotiators in enterprises is gradually becoming prominent. They mainly report to the director of cloud computing strategy and serve as his or her right-hand man to assist in handling strategy and business operations.

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2. Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO)

With the popularity of SaaS cloud services, companies using cloud computing services such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Tencent Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud are in urgent need of professionals to manage and control cloud computing costs. Cloud computing bargaining specialists need to be familiar with the tools and services of major cloud computing platforms, be able to help companies develop the best "cloud computing procurement plan", and be able to negotiate with cloud service providers to obtain better cloud computing service terms and prices. At the same time, they can also keenly discover the idle resources of cloud service providers to obtain additional discounts for companies.

Joe Kinsella, CTO of CloudHealth Technology, believes that the importance of cloud bargainers in enterprises is gradually becoming prominent. They mainly report to the director of cloud computing strategy and serve as his right-hand man to assist in handling strategy and business operations.

3. Data Protection Officer

With the launch of the EU’s data protection bill GDPR next year, more and more companies are beginning to re-examine data privacy compliance issues. As the saying goes, “We would rather have green mountains and clear waters than mountains of gold and silver,” the social harm of companies’ trampling and abuse of user privacy is becoming increasingly prominent. A cyberspace without privacy and trust will never develop healthily. In the next few years, governments around the world will tighten their supervision of corporate data privacy protection. Therefore, the practice of adding data protection officers is likely to spread from Europe to the global business community.

4. DevOps Manager/Vice President of DevOps

Agility is becoming a core element of modern corporate culture and competitiveness. Among the popular emerging IT careers recommended in this article, DevOps-related management positions such as DevOps managers may be the most in-demand one for enterprises, because more and more enterprises today are in urgent need of recruiting professionals who can closely connect business needs with IT development.

In the past few years, DevOps has played a huge role in promoting enterprise development and operation. Now enterprises need new roles to further improve the efficiency of DevOps enterprises.

In many large enterprises, the importance of DevOps managers is becoming increasingly prominent and is becoming a mainstream position. Today, many companies are focusing on improving development efficiency based on automated tools and processes, and are eager to recruit talents who can develop automated processes for IT production system maintenance and management.

5. Penetration Tester

With security threats unprecedentedly huge, most IT experts will tell you that the question facing companies today is not whether they need penetration testers, but what type of penetration testers they need and whether they are full-time. The era of corporate recruitment of hackers has arrived in full swing.

Before recruiting hackers to do penetration testing, companies need to sort out their needs and be clear about the job requirements of penetration testing. Charles Henderson, global head of IBM X Force Red, pointed out that the most capable security experts need to have skills including social engineering, data leakage, software exploitation and vulnerability research, and for companies, the character of penetration testers is extremely important, because curiosity and creativity are often more important than skills.

Li Hua, general manager of Gu'an Tianxia, ​​pointed out that before recruiting penetration testers, enterprises need to first clarify two issues: Is there enough workload to assign to a full-time penetration tester? Does the penetration tester to be recruited have the required skills to test all possible vulnerabilities?

Different penetration testing strategies are required for different enterprises and businesses. Some enterprises need to cultivate a penetration testing team internally to meet the continuous penetration testing needs of multiple project threads, but for most enterprises, the demand for penetration testing is sudden. In addition, considering that penetration testing requires extremely professional skills, many enterprises can also consider purchasing more flexible and manageable security testing services.

There are also voices of opposition in the industry regarding companies recruiting hackers to perform penetration testing. Mike Fitzmaurice, vice president of Nintex, believes that companies should not try to incorporate external testers into the internal organization under any circumstances. First of all, it is difficult for these testers to establish relationships with anyone in the company's IT department. In addition, once external penetration testers are incorporated into the company's organization, they lose their perspective and thinking as outsiders, and the testers you need need to think like an external attacker.

Regardless of your perspective, penetration testing positions are seeing a surge in demand, particularly from information security firms.

6. Innovation Manager

The position of innovation manager sounds strange, but in fact many companies have begun to try to set up positions similar to chief innovation officer.

Today, when technology is rapidly disrupting businesses, companies need a dedicated executive to keep a close eye on the development of emerging technologies and to introduce emerging technologies and business models to the company at the right time.

The innovation manager serves the chief innovation officer and focuses on defining and developing new business processes, products and services. The most important quality of an innovation manager is forward-looking and creative thinking. (That is what Jack Ma said about the era of artificial intelligence, the only thing worth learning is art)

7. Infrastructure Automation Architect

Automation is an old concept, but for companies seeking data center automation, a large number of new infrastructure automation talents are needed to meet new challenges. According to statistics from the recruitment website ZipRecruiter, the demand for infrastructure automation talents increased by 500% from 2016 to 2017!

Enterprise digital transformation is inseparable from a comprehensive and three-dimensional automation strategy. In the past, automation personnel were backstage heroes. But now, as software and applications move to the front end and become the face of the enterprise, higher requirements are placed on reliability, availability, and continuous iteration capabilities. All of these are inseparable from the implementation of a comprehensive IT automation strategy.