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DevOps Engineering

Automating build, deploy and reliability for software teams.

Field of study

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Core subjects

Subjects you actually study in DevOps — with notes, PDFs and video links.

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Learning roadmap

Phase by phase, with a resource link on every step.

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Phase 1 — Foundations
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Phase 2 — Core subjects
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Phase 3 — Specialise
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Phase 4 — Job ready

Technical skills

Pipeline design
Container orchestration
Infrastructure automation
Monitoring & alerting
Incident response
Secrets management

Programming skills

BashPythonGo (optional)YAML (heavy use)HCL (Terraform)

Tools & technologies

DockerKubernetesTerraformGitHub ActionsPrometheus & GrafanaArgoCD

Mini projects

Short, buildable projects to start with.

  • Dockerise an app and publish the image
  • GitHub Actions pipeline with tests and linting
  • Terraform a VPC and a VM
  • Grafana dashboard for a sample service

Major projects

Final-year scale projects that stand out in interviews.

  • Full GitOps deployment to Kubernetes
  • Blue-green deployment with automated rollback
  • Multi-environment IaC with remote state
  • Observability stack with SLOs and alerts

Career paths

  • • DevOps engineering
  • • Site reliability engineering
  • • Platform engineering
  • • Cloud infrastructure
  • • DevSecOps

Job roles

  • • DevOps Engineer
  • • SRE
  • • Platform Engineer
  • • Cloud Engineer
  • • Release Engineer

Government & PSU opportunities

Exams and organisations that recruit from this branch.

  • NIC infrastructure teams
  • PSU digital transformation projects
  • Defence IT infrastructure roles
  • State e-governance cloud teams

Higher studies

  • • MTech in cloud computing
  • • Advanced cloud architecture programmes
  • • Security specialisations

Certifications

  • • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • • CKA / CKAD
  • • HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  • • Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Industry-relevant technologies

What companies in this field are actively working on.

Platform engineering and internal developer portalsGitOpseBPF observabilityFinOpsSupply-chain security (SBOM)

DevOps career updates

Domains hiring from this branch and the skills each one expects.

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