Cloud, DevOps & Security
DevOps Engineering
Master the automation, delivery, and reliability practices that keep modern software shipping.
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Format
- Online Live
- Level
- Intermediate
- Credential
- Professional Certificate
Program overview
DevOps is the discipline of delivering software quickly and safely. This program covers the full toolchain — CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability — alongside the culture and practices that make them work. Everything is learned by building real pipelines for real applications.
What you'll be able to do
- Build CI/CD pipelines that test, package, and deploy automatically
- Containerize applications and orchestrate them with Kubernetes
- Manage infrastructure as code across environments
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting that engineers trust
- Apply SRE concepts: SLOs, error budgets, and incident practice
Tools & technologies
- GitHub Actions
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- AWS
Curriculum
5 modules · 16 weeks · every module ends with reviewed applied work.
Foundations: Linux, Git & Scripting
- Linux administration essentials
- Bash scripting
- Git workflows for teams
Continuous Integration & Delivery
- Pipeline design with GitHub Actions
- Testing strategies in CI
- Artifact management
- Deployment strategies: blue-green, canary
Containers & Kubernetes
- Docker in depth
- Kubernetes architecture and objects
- Helm and configuration
- GitOps with ArgoCD
Infrastructure & Observability
- Terraform for multi-environment infra
- Metrics with Prometheus and Grafana
- Centralized logging
- Alerting design
Reliability & Capstone
- SLOs and error budgets
- Incident response practice
- Capstone: complete delivery platform for a microservice app
Projects & capstone
You graduate with evidence, not just knowledge. Key projects include:
Zero-downtime CI/CD pipeline with automated rollback
Kubernetes deployment with GitOps workflow
Capstone: end-to-end delivery platform, documented and demoed
Who this program is for
- Developers moving into DevOps/platform roles
- Sysadmins adopting automation
- Cloud engineers adding delivery skills
Eligibility
Comfort with at least one programming or scripting language and basic command-line use. Cloud experience helpful but not required.
Your instructors
Priya Nair
Lead Instructor, Cloud & DevOps
Priya architected cloud migrations and platform engineering practices for organizations of every size. A holder of multiple professional cloud certifications, she teaches infrastructure with an operator’s pragmatism: automate everything, measure everything.
Career opportunities
Roles this program prepares you to pursue:
- DevOps Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer (junior)
- Release Engineer
Earn a verifiable certificate
Complete all required project work to earn the Pioneer Academy DevOps Engineering certificate — digitally issued with a unique verification link for your CV and LinkedIn.
Program FAQs
Do I need to know Kubernetes already?
No. We build from containers upward, and by mid-program you will deploy and debug workloads on a real cluster confidently.
Take the next step
Start your Cloud & Security journey
The next DevOps Engineering cohort is enrolling now. Applications take under ten minutes, and seats are confirmed in order of application.