Certification Path for GCP Jobs

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Hi Guys, if you had to give advice to someone on what certification path he or she would take to get a job working with GCP if they were completely new to IT (only help desk experience)?

Asking for a colleague at work who is just starting out their carrier but want to work towards a Dev / Cloud role

 

An entry level Linux cert might help too. He'd want to be able to understand and edit a userdata script that runs on first boot, maybe creates some dude called ansible, writes a string into an id_rsa.pub file for him and gives him nopasswd root. Or else something that does a mkdir and chown to some some stuff and then clones a repo into a /var/www folder, that sort of thing.

 

Maybe learn bash and Docker as well, maybe some postgres SQL. Basic networking, HTTP, api gateway stuff. Lot places use kubernetes over Ansible now.

 

Thank you everyone, I’ll pass on the advise. I should say though that they don’t have an IT background. They were recruited from Customer Services but I’m sure that won’t be a problem as they come across ambitious and eager to learn.