Cloud & DevOps Engineering

About This Program

What You’ll Learn

• Administer Linux servers and write Bash scripts
• Understand networking, DNS and security in the cloud
• Containerise applications with Docker
• Deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes
• Provision infrastructure with Terraform
• Build CI/CD pipelines and monitor services

Curriculum

1. Module 1 Module 1: Linux and networking (weeks 1–4) 3 topics

   • Linux administration
   • Bash scripting
   • Networking, DNS and TLS
2. Module 2 Module 2: Cloud fundamentals with AWS (weeks 5–9) 3 topics

   • IAM and security
   • Compute, storage and databases
   • Networking with VPCs
3. Module 3 Module 3: Containers and automation (weeks 10–15) 4 topics

   • Docker
   • Kubernetes
   • Terraform
   • CI/CD with GitHub Actions
4. Module 4 Module 4: Operations and capstone (weeks 16–21) 4 topics

   • Monitoring and logging
   • Reliability and incident response
   • Capstone project
   • AWS certification preparation

What You’ll Build

• Automated deployment of a web application to AWS
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform
• A CI/CD pipeline deploying to Kubernetes

Career Outcomes

• DevOps Engineer
• Cloud Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer (junior)
• Platform Engineer (junior)

Who This Program Is For

Requirements

• Basic programming or IT experience
• A laptop or desktop with at least 8 GB of RAM
• A reliable internet connection
• Cloud lab usage within the free tier; we show you how to avoid charges
• About 12–15 hours a week