# Structuring a Cloud Infrastructure Organization

DevFeed: [Structuring a Cloud Infrastructure Organization](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/structuring-a-cloud-infrastructure-organization-23005.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bravenewgeek.com/structuring-a-cloud-infrastructure-organization/>)

Author: Neville Poole

Published: 2020-12-07T17:21:46Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Brave New Geek](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brave-new-geek.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [on-prem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/on-prem.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [developer-enablement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-enablement.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [infrastructure-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-engineering.md>), [on-prem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-prem.md>), [ops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ops.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [product-mindset](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-mindset.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses how companies moving from conventional on-premises IT organizations to cloud environments can structure their engineering organizations. It presents product development and infrastructure as distinct areas and notes that DevOps and cloud adoption do not eliminate their different roles.

## Source excerpt

Real Kinetic often works with companies just beginning their cloud journey. Many come from a conventional on-prem IT organization, which typically looks like separate development and IT operations groups. One of the main challenges we help these clients with is how to structure their engineering organizations effectively as they make this transition. While we approach this problem holistically, it can generally be looked at as two components: product development and infrastructure. One might wonder if this is still the case with the shift to DevOps and cloud, but as we'll see, these two groups still play important and distinct roles.