Is cloud computing killing the IT support jobs?

Its depends like, Yes - If you are the guy who is making his living by clicking "Next" in OS or Software installation. No - If you are the guy who is making his living by solving real problems (like how to script above actions and make sure they work perfectly in 99.9% of time) Apart from this, I have a separate view that is ‘No’. In fact, cloud computing is creating more jobs. Traditional enterprise IT is moving away from soiled infrastructure with admins managing each of those silos (network, storage and servers) to admins managing software defined data centers (SDDCs) with (hopefully) a single pane of management. The single pane is yet to be realized, but if you are a soiled admin, I suggest you gain expertise in managing the SDDCs holistically. Quick edit: I guess the old soiled admin jobs are slowly going away, but new ones are being created, where bigger skill set is required.

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Killing is a very strong word. No, it's just changing them. Instead of managing servers one-by-one manually, admins now have to learn how to configure and customize DevOps software like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Salt Stack, Capistrano, Nagios, Cacti, New Relic, and the like. Before the point-and-click days of servers, admins had to write shell or batch scripts. Then things became a bit more GUI-heavy (on some server types at least). Now things have swung back in the direction of writing scripts, but they're designed to run on many servers at once by nature.

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