Live Online Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course
Live online, instructor-led · next cohort Oct 19, 2026 · from USD 1,700
Moving to the cloud does not by itself make delivery faster or cheaper. Many organisations discover that releases still queue behind manual approvals, environments drift apart, incidents repeat and the monthly bill grows faster than the business. This 10-day programme is for technical leaders who must fix that. The first week builds the engineering base: cloud architecture on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, infrastructure as code with Terraform, containers and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps and DevSecOps controls. The second week turns to running the platform well, with observability, SRE practice, service level objectives, incident response, DORA delivery metrics and the FinOps lifecycle of inform, optimise and operate.
Delegates then examine platform engineering, including internal developer portals, golden paths and self-service environments, and the leadership skills that make them stick: team topologies, ownership, coaching, decision-making and managing performance. Cloud architects, DevOps and platform engineers, SRE leads, engineering managers, IT heads and cloud finance analysts in banks, telecoms, government and technology firms will gain the most. Classroom, online and in-house delivery are available, with a CPD-accredited certificate. Afterwards you can set a delivery and cost improvement plan with measurable targets.
At a Glance
How Live Online Training Works
Live online training, led by a trainer in real time, for participants anywhere.
More about live online training →- Format
- Live online, instructor-led
- Duration
- Mon - Fri (10 Days)
- Fee
- USD 1,700 (KES 160,000)
- Next start dates
- Oct 19, 2026, Nov 16, 2026, Dec 14, 2026
- Certificate
- Certificate of Completion
- What you need
- A computer with a reliable internet connection, a webcam and a headset
About this course
Cloud platforms promise speed, elasticity and resilience, but they also introduce new complexity: dozens of services, shared responsibility for security, and spending that is variable and easy to lose track of. Teams that adopt tools without changing how they work often end up with expensive, fragile systems and frustrated engineers. The organisations that do well combine strong engineering practice with clear ownership, shared measures and cost awareness.
The Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course covers all four disciplines and, importantly, how they connect. Participants start with cloud foundations, networking, identity and landing zones, then automate environments with infrastructure as code. They build delivery pipelines, deploy workloads to Kubernetes and add security scanning, policy as code and secrets management. The programme goes on to reliability: monitoring, logging and tracing, error budgets, incident management and blameless reviews. In parallel, the FinOps module teaches tagging, allocation, showback and chargeback, rightsizing, commitment discounts and forecasting. Final days introduce platform engineering as a product, with self-service tooling for developers, and the leadership practices needed to run high-performing technical teams.
The course is lab-intensive. Participants provision real cloud resources, build and break pipelines, analyse billing data, and finish with a capstone in which they design a platform and improvement plan for their own organisation.
Training Objectives
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Design secure, resilient cloud architectures and landing zones across major providers.
- Automate infrastructure with Terraform and version-controlled workflows.
- Build CI/CD pipelines that include testing, security scanning and controlled deployment.
- Deploy and operate containerised workloads on Kubernetes using GitOps principles.
- Define service level indicators and objectives and apply error budgets to release decisions.
- Measure delivery performance with DORA metrics and use the results to guide improvement.
- Apply the FinOps framework to allocate, optimise and forecast cloud costs.
- Design an internal developer platform with golden paths and self-service capability.
What you'll learn
Key Takeaways
Participants leave with both technical assets and management tools:
- A working Terraform and pipeline codebase they can adapt to their own environments.
- A reference landing zone and Kubernetes deployment design.
- A set of service level objectives and an incident response runbook.
- A cost allocation model and prioritised list of savings opportunities.
- An internal developer platform blueprint with a golden path for new services.
- A baseline of DORA metrics and a ninety-day improvement plan.
- A leadership plan for team structure, ownership and performance conversations.
Training Methodology
Over the ten days the programme balances laboratory practice with leadership discussion:
- Hands-on labs in a live cloud environment, with step-by-step guidance and challenges
- Code repositories and pipeline templates participants keep after the course
- Billing data exercises that reflect real cost patterns
- Incident simulations with assigned roles and structured debriefs
- Leadership clinics on team structure, coaching and performance
- A capstone design reviewed by the trainer and peers
Day 1: Cloud Foundations and Strategy
- Cloud service and deployment models, and the shared responsibility model
- Comparing AWS, Azure and Google Cloud services
- Landing zones, accounts, subscriptions and organisation structure
- Identity and access management principles
- Cloud adoption strategy and well-architected frameworks
- Lab: setting up a secure cloud account structure
Day 2: Networking, Compute and Storage Design
- Virtual networks, subnets, routing and connectivity
- Compute options: virtual machines, containers and serverless
- Storage, databases and data protection choices
- High availability, scaling and disaster recovery patterns
- Designing for resilience and cost together
- Lab: deploying a scalable three-tier application
Day 3: DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps principles, flow and feedback
- Git workflows and trunk-based development
- Terraform: providers, state, modules and workspaces
- Environment consistency and drift detection
- Reviewing and testing infrastructure code
- Lab: building environments with Terraform modules
Day 4: CI/CD Pipelines
- Continuous integration with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Automated testing and quality gates
- Artifact registries and versioning
- Deployment strategies: blue-green, canary and rolling
- Release approvals and change management in regulated settings
- Lab: building a pipeline from commit to production
Day 5: Containers, Kubernetes and GitOps
- Container images and registries
- Kubernetes objects: pods, deployments, services and ingress
- Configuration, secrets and persistent storage
- GitOps with Argo CD or Flux
- Scaling, upgrades and cluster operations
- Lab: deploying and updating a service on Kubernetes
Day 6: DevSecOps and Policy Controls
- Shifting security left in the delivery pipeline
- Code, dependency and container image scanning
- Secrets management and key rotation
- Policy as code and compliance automation
- Cloud security posture management
- Lab: adding security gates and policy checks to a pipeline
Day 7: Observability, SRE and Reliability
- Metrics, logs and traces with Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Service level indicators, objectives and error budgets
- Alerting design and reducing noise
- Incident command, runbooks and blameless post-incident reviews
- Chaos and resilience testing
- Lab: instrumenting a service and defining SLOs
Day 8: FinOps and Cloud Cost Management
- The FinOps lifecycle: inform, optimise and operate
- Tagging strategy, allocation, showback and chargeback
- Rightsizing, storage tiers, scheduling and waste removal
- Reserved capacity, savings plans and spot usage
- Forecasting, budgets and anomaly detection
- Lab: analysing a billing export and building a savings plan
Day 9: Platform Engineering and Delivery Performance
- Platform as a product: users, roadmap and feedback
- Internal developer portals such as Backstage
- Golden paths, templates and self-service environments
- DORA metrics and developer experience measures
- Team Topologies and ownership models
- Lab: designing a golden path for a new microservice
Day 10: Leading High-Performing Technical Teams and Capstone
- Setting direction, priorities and measurable engineering goals
- Coaching, feedback and managing performance in technical teams
- Managing vendors, cost conversations and executive reporting
- Driving adoption and change across engineering groups
- Capstone workshop: platform design and improvement roadmap
- Presentations, feedback and course review
The programme is aimed at experienced practitioners and leaders in technology functions, including:
- Cloud architects and solution architects
- DevOps, platform and site reliability engineers
- Engineering managers and team leads
- Heads of IT, infrastructure and technology operations
- Security engineers moving into DevSecOps
- Cloud finance, FinOps and IT procurement analysts
- Technical programme managers
- CTOs and technology directors in growing organisations
Vision Reach Global Consultancy issues a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion to participants who attend the ten days and complete the labs and the capstone. It evidences substantial professional development time in cloud and engineering leadership.
Choose Where You Want to Learn
Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course Venues
KenyaNairobiNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,000- KenyaMombasaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,200
- KenyaNaivashaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaKisumuNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,000
- KenyaMachakosNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,200
UgandaKampalaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$3,800
RwandaKigaliNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,800
TanzaniaArushaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$3,800- TanzaniaDodomaNext Oct 26· 13 dates$3,600
- TanzaniaDar es SalaamNext Oct 26· 13 dates$4,000
- TanzaniaZanzibarNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,200
NigeriaLagosNext Nov 16· 13 dates$5,600- NigeriaAbujaNext Nov 9· 13 dates$5,600
South AfricaPretoriaNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,400- South AfricaJohannesburgNext Nov 2· 13 dates$6,800
- South AfricaCape TownNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
UAEDubaiNext Oct 26· 13 dates$7,600
GhanaAccraNext Nov 16· 13 dates$9,000
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Frequently Asked Questions About Live Online Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course
Everything you need to know about this course before you register.
By the end of the Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering programme, you'll be able to design secure, resilient cloud architectures and landing zones across major providers, automate infrastructure with terraform and version-controlled workflows, build ci/cd pipelines that include testing, security scanning and controlled deployment, and deploy and operate containerised workloads on kubernetes using gitops principles. The full breakdown of topics is covered session by session in the Course Outline tab above.
The programme is aimed at experienced practitioners and leaders in technology functions, including: Cloud architects and solution architects, DevOps, platform and site reliability engineers, Engineering managers and team leads, Heads of IT, infrastructure and technology operations, Security engineers moving into DevSecOps, Cloud finance, FinOps and IT procurement analysts, Technical programme managers, and CTOs and technology directors in growing organisations.
Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course typically runs as 10 Days. It's available as in-person classroom, live virtual, and in-house corporate training — every course can also be delivered on-site for your team on dates that suit you.
Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course is scheduled in-classroom in Nairobi, Kenya, Mombasa, Kenya, Naivasha, Kenya, and Kisumu, Kenya, and 14 other locations, plus a live interactive virtual classroom you can join from anywhere. Check the schedule panel above for exact upcoming dates and fees in each location.
The next live virtual cohort of Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering starts November 16, 2026, with new classroom cohorts also running on a rolling basis. Pick a date and location in the schedule panel above, then click "Register for the Course" — it takes a few minutes and your seat is confirmed once payment or a signed purchase order is received.
Yes — delegates who meet the attendance requirement receive a Certificate of Completion for Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course from Vision Reach Global Consultancy, issued in the name you register with, so double-check the spelling at checkout.
Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course is pitched at advanced professionals. If you're unsure whether it's the right fit for your current role or background, message our training advisors before you register and they'll help you confirm.
Fees for Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course vary by delivery location and format and are shown in real time in the schedule panel above once you pick a date. Register 3 or more delegates on the same course together and a 5% team discount is applied automatically — larger cohorts can request a custom corporate quote.
Yes — Leadership and Performance in Cloud, DevOps, FinOps & Platform Engineering Training Course can be delivered on-site at your offices (or virtually for distributed teams), with case studies and examples tailored to your industry and the specific challenges your team is working through. Switch to the "In-House" tab in the schedule panel above to request a proposal.
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