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Junior DevOps Engineering

This course prepares you for the AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Cloud Practitioner credentials. University partner: Partner University (sample).

Systems and software delivery theory from university faculty; Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform from engineers who run production pipelines.

Part A · Theory · University · 30%Part B · Practical · Industry · 70%

Who this course is for

Developers, testers and cloud support engineers with one to three years of experience, and strong fresh graduates with Linux skills.

What you will be able to do

Graduates are ready for junior DevOps, site reliability and cloud engineer roles.

Syllabus, by who teaches it

Progress is tracked separately for theory and practical, and both are assessed.

Part A · Theory University faculty
  1. A1
    Software delivery and DevOps principles

    Flow, feedback and continuous improvement; what DevOps changes.

  2. A2
    Linux and networking for operations

    Processes, permissions, services and networking.

  3. A3
    Cloud architecture

    Designing for resilience, security and cost on AWS.

  4. A4
    Observability

    Logs, metrics, traces and service levels.

Assessed by a proctored online theory exam set and marked by university faculty.
Part B · Practical Industry professionals
  1. B1
    Git and CI/CD

    GitHub Actions pipelines with tests, builds and deployments.

  2. B2
    Containers

    Docker images, compose and registries.

  3. B3
    Kubernetes

    Deployments, services, ingress and Helm on a managed cluster.

  4. B4
    Infrastructure as code

    Terraform for AWS, with state and modules.

  5. B5
    Industry project

    Build and run the delivery pipeline for a partner company's service, with on-call simulation.

Assessed on progressive assignments, the industry project and a presentation to the partner team.
You earnWalnutcraft Certificate in DevOps EngineeringIssued on passing both assessments, with theory and practical marks shown separately. Verifiable online by employers.
Industry projectA brief from a partner companyBuild and run the delivery pipeline for a partner company's service, with on-call simulation.
After the courseApply to partner rolesApply from Walnut LMS to the roles partner employers share for this career, and sit the certification exam with the course's preparation.

Ready for Junior DevOps Engineering?

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