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DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code and reliability engineering for systems that cannot go down.

Median salary $135,000 · 44-week programme · from $105/week

What you'll learn

The skills this track builds

Every one of these appears in real job descriptions for this field.

Linux & systems

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Penetration Tester, Cybersecurity Engineer

Containers & Kubernetes

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Data Engineer

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Solutions Architect

CI/CD pipelines

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Data Engineer

Observability & monitoring

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Cybersecurity Engineer

Reliability & SLOs

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Solutions Architect

Incident response & on-call

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Cybersecurity Engineer, AI Security Engineer

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Used by: Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, DevOps/SRE, Cloud Security Architect

Networking & protocols

Used by: DevOps/SRE, Penetration Tester, Solutions Architect, Cybersecurity Engineer

Analytical problem-solving

Used by: All roles

The year

Phase 1

Foundations (wks 1–10): Linux, networking, scripting, Git.

Phase 2

Automation (wks 11–24): Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform.

Phase 3

Reliability (wks 25–34): observability, incident response, SLOs, chaos engineering.

Phase 4

Capstone & placement (wks 35–44): a production-grade platform capstone, certifications, interview phase.

Certification preparation: CKA · AWS DevOps Professional · Terraform Associate.

Infrastructure

Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code and reliability engineering for systems that cannot go down.