IT Proficiency Development

The path of the Infra Cloud Automation Jedi (VMware based cloud implementation)    This is the path according to my understandings of what infrastructure automation developer should be. And we the Developers are hard guys, with their own hard opinions and views, so I guess, somebody else may come with another path - well that is fine and could work as well. Also this is kind-a initial draft version of my path, I could introduce some corrections to it later.  Assuming following starting point and concentrating on Automation only: IT Admin or Dev Ops engineer in any of the hardware or Software stack.   Understanding well how a datacenter works. Assuming some knowledge in virtualization technologies maybe some vCenter knowledge. Knowledge for the compute, storage, networking, firewalling, backup, monitoring, pricing and etc in the datacenter.   0. Do I want this??? - Beginner automation developer 1. Get any programi...

What is to be Cloud Automation Developer in real life (in the context of VMware technologies)? If you are an IT guy (in any IT domain) and ask yourself questions like: What do I need to become Cloud Automation Developer? Or Can I even be Cloud automation developer? What is to be Cloud automation developer? What is it like to become VRO automation developer? What do I need to become vRO (vRA-VRO or SDDC) automation developer? Etc. Who might be interested in the questions above or similar questions? Well  for example newly rising engineers, who want to get more into automation and programming. Or for example all IT engineers who want to change from another IT domain to programming or automation. Like being  professional in something in hardware or software management to automation and programming for the same domain. Actually being an IT guys means you constantly need to change and improve - every few years you need to learn new technology or gain new skill. That is the...