Cloud services are now the default place to run new applications, and the expectations on engineering teams have risen with them. Releases are expected weekly or daily, systems must stay available, security findings must be fixed before launch and finance departments want to know why the monthly invoice keeps growing. Organisations that treat these as separate problems often end up with tool sprawl and friction between development, operations and finance.

This programme joins the disciplines into one practical path. Participants begin with cloud strategy and foundational architecture, then automate how software is built, tested, secured and deployed. They provision environments as code, run containerised workloads on Kubernetes, and instrument systems so incidents are detected and learned from. A dedicated block introduces FinOps practice so engineering choices carry visible cost, and platform engineering principles so shared capability is packaged as a product for internal teams.

Work is dominated by laboratories on a shared cloud sandbox, with a continuous case project that grows from a simple application into a governed, observable and cost-managed service. Participants close the programme by presenting a roadmap tailored to their own organisation and receiving feedback from facilitators and peers.

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

• Develop a cloud adoption and migration plan with governance, security and cost considerations.
• Design a landing zone with identity, networking, account structure and policy guardrails.
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines with testing, artefact management and controlled releases.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and version-controlled configuration.
• Deploy, scale and operate containerised applications on Kubernetes.
• Implement observability, alerting and incident practices based on service level objectives.
• Embed security checks in pipelines and manage secrets and access appropriately.
• Apply FinOps methods and design a self-service internal developer platform.

The programme is intended for technical practitioners and leaders responsible for building and running cloud-based services, such as:

• Cloud and infrastructure engineers
• DevOps and site reliability engineers
• Solution and enterprise architects
• Software development team leads and senior developers
• IT operations and service delivery managers
• Security engineers working on cloud and pipeline controls
• Finance and procurement analysts supporting cloud spend
• CTOs and heads of technology in banks, telecoms, government and start-ups

Participants leave with:

• A working CI/CD pipeline and Terraform codebase from the case project.
• A landing zone design and cloud adoption roadmap for their organisation.
• A Kubernetes deployment manifest set with monitoring and alerts.
• A tagging and cost allocation scheme with a cost review routine.
• A blueprint for a golden path and developer self-service portal.
• A set of service level objectives and runbook templates.

The programme is delivered as a sequence of engineering labs. Participants experience:

• Short architecture briefings followed by guided hands-on work
• A cloud sandbox with cloud credits provided for each participant
• One case application taken from repository to governed production service
• Cost review sessions using sample billing data
• Design reviews and roadmap presentations with expert feedback

Participants who attend the ten days and complete the laboratories receive a CPD-accredited Certificate of Completion from Vision Reach Global Consultancy. The certificate is not a vendor credential from any cloud provider.