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MarkdownSimplified CTO Role: Tech Strategy Align technology with business goals Drive innovation and digital transformation Leadership C-suite decision-making Manage tech department and budget Architecture High-level system design Key technology decisions External Relations Vendor selection and management Industry networking Risk & Security Cybersecurity oversight Compliance management
- Workloads on Public Clouds
- Security: MFAs, Root Accounts, Service Accounts, Password Rotations
- Security: Audit, Notificaitons, Alerts
- Security: Password Policies
- Security: Preventive detection
- Disaster Recovery: Detect reliability issues (partial loss, failover)
- Disaster Recovery: - RTO/RPO Objectives * Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).
- Application: Logging, Observability
- Cloud Services Logging
- Network Optimizations/Seggregations: Edge Services, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables
- Network Traffic: SGs, NACLs, WAF, PrivateLink VPC
- Security: Common Vulnerabilities, Security Exposures
- Security: OS Patches
- Security: Encryption at Rest (EC2, RDS, S3) / Ecnryption at Flight (public sources into workload)
- Security: Storage of sensitive data
- Billing: Service Limits / Usage / Alerts
- BIlling: Cost reduction (savings, reserved instances)
- High Availability (Route53, CloudFront, API Gateway, ELB)
- AutoScaling (on demand - react to changes, planned)
- Backups
- SLA: Span workloads through AZs or Regions
- SLA: Self Healing (failover, automation, redeploy, rebuild)
- Sizing of Compute Resources
Soft Skills
- Pragamatic: straightforward, matter-of-fact, or realistic approach to a situation or problem.
Related Roles
- COO (Chief Operating Officer): Key member of the senior executive team, and plays a critical role in the success of the organization by ensuring that the company is running smoothly and effectively, and that the operational teams are motivated and aligned with the company's goals.
Created on 7/14/2022