The Developer to DevOps pathway is built for one specific person: the software developer, frontend, backend, or fullstack who wants to evolve their career into DevOps engineering. You already write code every day. You already understand how applications work from the inside. Now it is time to learn how to ship that code faster, more reliably, and with full ownership of the infrastructure it runs on.

This pathway leverages your existing developer skills as a superpower. While others are learning to code from scratch, you will be applying your programming knowledge to infrastructure automation, pipeline engineering, and cloud architecture from week one. The result is a dramatically shorter path to job-ready DevOps skills and a unique professional profile that most hiring managers actively seek out.

Over 12 weeks, you will transform from someone who hands code over the wall to someone who owns the entire delivery pipeline from git commit all the way to a running, monitored production system. Every module is built around the mindset shift that makes great DevOps engineers: from 'it works on my machine' to 'it runs reliably in production at scale.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this programme, participants will be able to:

• Design and implement production-grade CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Jenkins that automate every stage from commit to deployment

• Containerize applications of any language and framework using Docker with optimised, production-ready Dockerfiles

• Deploy and manage containerized workloads on Kubernetes — locally and on AWS EKS — with Helm chart-based deployments

• Provision cloud infrastructure using Terraform with modular, environment-parameterised configurations

• Implement GitOps workflows using ArgoCD to deliver continuous deployments driven entirely from Git

• Apply DevSecOps practices — integrating SAST, SCA, container scanning, and secrets management into every pipeline

• Instrument applications and infrastructure with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and distributed tracing using OpenTelemetry

• Configure and manage AWS services required for modern application deployment: ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, Route 53

• Write Python and Bash automation scripts that solve real operational problems

• Build a GitHub portfolio of production-grade DevOps projects that demonstrate job-ready skills to employers

• Speak confidently in DevOps interviews — explaining technical decisions, trade-offs, and architecture choices