Infrastructure, Security & Architecture

DevOps Engineer

Make deployments repeatable, reliable, and easier to operate.

What you’ll work on

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for real client projects
  • Automate deployments, environments, and infrastructure
  • Work with servers, monitoring, backups, and operational issues
  • Improve development workflows through tooling and automation
  • Investigate deployment and infrastructure problems when things don’t go as planned

Professional capabilities you’ll develop

  • Understanding how software moves from code to production
  • Working with Linux environments and servers
  • Building repeatable deployment processes
  • Monitoring applications and investigating failures
  • Infrastructure and environment management
  • Automation and shell scripting
  • Thinking about reliability and operational risk

Technologies you may work with

  • Linux
  • Git and GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Nginx
  • Monitoring and logging tools
  • Shell scripting

Examples of real work

  • Deployment pipelines for live client applications
  • Server provisioning and monitoring for production workloads

Who this suits

You like understanding how systems fit together, automating repetitive work, and figuring out what happened when something breaks.


Prerequisites

Prerequisites are a starting point, not a promise that you already know everything. You're expected to learn during the experience — but you also need enough foundation to participate in real work and take responsibility for your own progress.

DevOps Engineer

  • Basic Linux/command-line knowledge
  • Basic Git knowledge
  • Basic understanding of how web applications are deployed
  • Basic networking concepts
  • Basic scripting/programming ability
  • Willingness to troubleshoot systems methodically

explore Not sure whether this is for you? Explore other programmes

mark_email_unread Keep learning

Keep learning with IDEA Lighthouse

New articles about technology careers, professional development, real-world software work and the transition from learning to employment.

shield No spam, ever event_repeat Unsubscribe anytime