Cloud Powers Digital Transformation @ Scale
Across enterprises and startups applications are being migrated to cloud platforms on a massive scale. Working behind the scenes are the IT infrastructure and operations teams. They are expected to ensure high levels of application availability, stability, and responsiveness to users by using the latest platforms, technologies, tools and techniques in this area.
Disruptive skills in software development methodologies, cloud technologies and IT automation command salary premiums in excess of $100,000 per year. There were an estimated 460,000+ job postings demanding skills in cloud technologies. The number of postings for skills relating to software development methodologies, including DevOps, exceeded 634,001. Cloud administration and DevOps skills are required to be able to perform well in a modern agile applications development environment.
Duration: As Little as 14 Weeks
Course Fee: As low as $8,500 USD
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Market Trends
- Organizations are accelerating their cloud strategies due to the pandemic.
- DevOps is becoming the most popular and efficient approach to cloud computing as it enables organizations to deliver applications and services at high velocity.
- The industry demands professionals who are highly proficient in DevOps practices.
Job Demand
Source: LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report
Source: LinkedIn’s 2020 Emerging Jobs Report
Source: World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2020
Bootcamp Outline and Highlights
Our bootcamp begins by helping students build a strong networking and OS foundation. It emphasizes design, implementation, and administration of IP networks. Students can become competent at entry level Linux systems administration, and are taught to deploy and manage common applications and services using Linux servers. They are taught many survival skills in programming and relational databases. They are encouraged to develop an automation mindset and build skills to automate routine IT infrastructure deployment, configuration, and monitoring activities. They are also taught infrastructure virtualization across on-premises and cloud-based deployment scenario.
After the foundation phase students dive deeper into three critical competency areas - SysOps administration continuous monitoring and digital infrastructure automation. They are taught skills on cloud architecture, deployment patterns (IaaS, PaaS, FaaS) and provisioning cloud resources. They are taught to monitor the health of IT resources, configuring alerts, optimizing resource utilization and automating the deployment and administration of large fleets of IT resources. Throughout their bootcamp, students will participate in up to three, two-week intensive preparation sessions for top in-demand certifications in Cloud Administration, including Azure Fundamentals, AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS Security and Azure Administration Associate.
Student Guidelines
- Students must possess the curiosity and a determination to persist with demanding hands-on exercises and assignments.
- In addition, students need to fulfill the below
requirements:
- High School Diploma from an accredited institution
- Spoken and written English skills
- Appropriately configured PC with webcam and headset
- Uninterrupted internet connection
- Uninterrupted time to complete the learning activities on schedule
Delivery Guidelines
- Sessions will be conducted between 6:00PM – 10:00PM EST ON MONDAYS AND 6:00PM - 8:00PM EST ON THURSDAYS.
- Live online lectures on context-setting and concept building
- 60% of the bootcamp is hands-on i.e. in each session, a student will spend more than 60% of their time on hands-on activities such as coding
Who Should Attend?
Students who are excited about Cloud DevOps or those looking for a career shift into Cloud IT Infrastructure, should consider this bootcamp. No prior programming experience is required just a determination to persist with demanding hands-on exercises and assignments. Some other basic requirements are:
- High School Diploma from an accredited institution
- Spoken and written English skills
- Appropriately configured PC with webcam and headset
- Uninterrupted internet connection
- Uninterrupted time to complete the learning activities on schedule
Exit Profile
This program is designed to help deliver job-ready Cloud Systems Administrators and begin to prepare them for a future progression into the exciting new area of Cloud DevOps. The program systematically helps students acquire critical competencies required to take on a role of a Cloud Systems Administrator.
Upon successful completion of all of the assignments and projects, each student should be able to:
- Install and configure the Linux OS, and associated applications, packages, and services
- Configure network services such as DHCP, DNS, FTP, and File and Print sharing over a network
- Automate tasks using scripting and programming (Python)
- Design & implement networks with switching & routing devices
- Create Virtual Machines, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and use Virtual storage and Cloud services
- Deploy applications on public and private cloud platforms
- Monitor cloud resources, systems, and application logs, and identify key performance indicators, and create health dashboards
- Automate systems administration tasks
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) and deployment patterns using GitOps, Terraform, and Kubernetes
Bootcamp Coverage - Competencies - Knowledge and Skill
This bootcamp is designed to build the core competencies i.e., entry level knowledge and skills to perform tasks for the cloud systems administrator job role. As part of the journey, they build the right attitude that sets them up for seamlessly transitioning to this role, as well as making them aware of some of the best practices that professionals are expected to adopt. The tough challenges that they encounter as part of the bootcamp and the capstone project help accelerate their experience. As part of our holistic approach, we help prepare students not just with technical competencies, but also the complementary engineering and behavioral competencies.
We emphasize, that successfully completing this bootcamp is not just about attending live sessions alone – it is also about following through and completing the hands-on assignments and projects. For an assignment to be considered complete, students must refactor their solution after getting it reviewed. Assignment completion is necessary to move forward.