Cloud platforms have shifted infrastructure from capital purchases to usage-based services, and software teams are expected to deliver changes weekly or daily rather than quarterly. This creates demand for people who understand how code, infrastructure and money connect. Yet many organisations adopt cloud tools without the working habits that make them reliable, secure and affordable, and end up with fragile systems and unexpected bills.

This programme builds those habits step by step. Participants first learn the vocabulary and building blocks of public cloud, along with the Linux, networking and version control skills on which everything else rests. They then adopt DevOps practices: continuous integration and delivery, containerisation, orchestration, configuration and infrastructure defined as code, and observability. The later part introduces FinOps, the discipline of managing cloud spend collaboratively through tagging, allocation, budgeting and rightsizing, and platform engineering, where internal teams provide paved, self-service routes for developers to build and run services safely.

Every day combines explanation with guided practice in a cloud lab environment. By the final day, participants have assembled a small end-to-end project that they can describe, demonstrate and extend after the course.

By the end of the ten days, participants will be able to:

• Explain cloud service and deployment models, regions, availability zones and the shared responsibility model.
• Use Linux commands, shell scripts and Git for everyday engineering tasks.
• Package applications as Docker containers and manage images and registries.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines that test, scan and deploy code.
• Deploy and operate simple workloads on Kubernetes.
• Provision and change cloud resources using Terraform and version control.
• Set up monitoring, logging and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Apply FinOps practices to allocate, forecast and reduce cloud spend.

The course is a starting point for people moving into modern infrastructure and delivery roles, such as:

• System and network administrators moving to cloud
• Junior and graduate software developers
• IT support and infrastructure engineers
• Cloud migration and digital transformation team members
• Technical project and product managers
• Database and application support staff
• Finance and procurement analysts managing technology spend
• Technology graduates and career changers

Participants finish the course with:

• A containerised application running in a cloud environment.
• A working CI/CD pipeline stored in version control.
• Terraform code that can recreate their lab infrastructure on demand.
• A monitoring dashboard with alerts for a running service.
• A cloud cost tagging scheme and a simple savings plan.
• A learning roadmap for further cloud and DevOps study.

The course is lab-led, with explanation kept brief so most time is spent working in a real environment. It includes:

• A personal cloud sandbox for each participant
• Guided labs after every concept block
• Pair programming and troubleshooting sessions
• Review of real pipeline failures and cost spikes
• A ten-day capstone project demonstrated on the last day

Participants who attend the full ten days and complete the labs and the capstone project are awarded a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion by Vision Reach Global Consultancy.