Consuming the "Cloud" - How are you doing it?

Before leaving my previous company there was an interesting trend in the market and industry I have worked for the past few years, and that is that multiple verticals out there are considering moving their traditional premises workloads to the cloud. That is a beautiful thing, but from my standpoint as an Engineer/Architect, I’m thinking how I’m going to be able to get involved into it? - Smart conversations need to happen and well, I’m usually part of those conversations, or in the room when smart people talks about cloud :)