Cisco’s report on IT trends states that new jobs to meet changing IT needs to include business translation, network guardians, and network detectives.
The future of IT network work is partly affected by current needs, which are created by the rapid changes in the way companies handle the COVID-19, and the way networks are constructed.
In particular, network engineers who need to keep up with the critical skill sets of their professional games are rapidly developing, and are increasingly focusing on integrating security and intent-based software skills with business capabilities.
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Cisco’s “Global Network Trends Report 2020” can give a glimpse of the ultimate meaning for IT network professionals. This work was completed before COVID-19 changed the company’s operating method, but due to the impact of the epidemic, the expected result has been accelerated.
Joe Clarke, Cisco Distinguished Service Engineer, said: “Obviously, these skills are becoming more important now-the need to connect and control the company’s connectivity and security with home workers requires new expertise.” Clarke, This is the evolving skills of network engineers. They need to deal more with business managers and convert the information they need into an IT vocabulary about setting strategies and continue to build the network foundation.
Through network research, Cisco has proposed many new or developing roles, which are expected to appear in the future, including:
Business converters: Business converters are dedicated to better-converting business requirements into service levels, security, and compliance requirements that can be applied and monitored across the entire network. The translator is also committed to using the network and network data to achieve business value and innovation. Their knowledge of the system and application APIs will help them connect their business with the IT field.
Network Guardian: The network guardian can bridge the network and security architecture. They built the distributed intelligence of the network into the security architecture and SecOps process. This is where the system and security meet, the guardian is the center of everything, pull in and push out a lot of data, extract it, and then take measures to identify the attacker who is malfunctioning or adapts to shutdown.
Network Commander: Intent-based networks are based on controller-based automation and orchestration processes. The network commander is responsible for these processes and practices to ensure the healthy and continuous operation of the network controller and the underlying network.
Network Coordinator: This position translates business needs into network strategies. It focuses on strategy conversion and automation, as well as strategy adjustment across networks and IT domains.
Network detectives: Network detectives use and adjust network assurance tools that use advanced analytics and AI to ensure that the network communicates business intent. Together with the IT service management process and the SecOps team, they identify network anomalies and close potential security holes. Like network guardians, they actively use data to identify failures and attacks.
Clark said: “These new jobs represent an increasingly close connection between business and technology.” “Different people handle the various parts of these new standards, but what we see is that a hybrid is needed Engineers come to feel the multiple responsibilities they usually don’t handle today. “
For example, the business intent may be a high-quality video call from a remote workspace, and then it may be moved from one location to another. The network does not understand this, but engineers can use a multi-step configuration to achieve this goal. He said how to deal with security, control bandwidth, QoS, and use analysis and automation together are part of an evolving role.
“Many people are using cloud-based collaboration tools and file-sharing tools that have never been used,” Clark said. “All of this requires a fast-moving agile network that can respond quickly to new demands.”
Over the past year, Cisco has improved most of the critical certification and career development tools to help networks and other IT professionals cope with the emerging software-oriented network environment. For example, it has used Cisco’s growing DevNet developer community to introduce a new set of professional certifications for coding, automation, and application development.
Cisco Certified DevNet Assistant, Expert, and Professional certification covers software development for applications, automation, DevOps, cloud, and IoT. They also target software developers and network engineers who develop software capabilities to build applications and automate workflows for operational networks and infrastructure.
Cisco said that new network technologies such as intent-based networks, multi-domain networks, and programmability have fundamentally changed the functions of the system, allowing network engineers to design solutions that utilize programmable networks in new ways.
In the face of the current closure of the test center in the COVID-19 pandemic, Cisco recently said that it would enable people who are ready to take the Cisco certification written test online. Besides, Cisco announced that since March 16, 2020, sufficient accreditation had been extended for six months.
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