Cloud Engineering
Cloud Engineering
Cloud engineering is building and operating the infrastructure that software runs on. Servers, networks, databases, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems. If an application runs in the cloud, a cloud engineer provisioned the infrastructure, wrote the deployment pipeline, and gets paged when it breaks at 3am.
1
First Infrastructure: Provision, Deploy, Verify
5 units
2
Production VPC: Database Isolation and Cost Analysis
5 units
3
Containerisation and Monitoring: Consistency and Visibility
5 units
4
Infrastructure Modules, Security Scanning, and Cost Analysis
5 units
5
CI/CD Pipeline and Secrets Management
4 units
6
Alarms, Dashboards, and the First Runbook
4 units
7
Structured Logging and Hypothesis-Driven Troubleshooting
5 units
8
Staging, SLOs, and Cost Modeling for a Growing Platform
6 units
9
Inherited Infrastructure: Audit, Import, and Reconcile
7 units
10
Operational Triage: Framework, Review, and Communication
7 units
11
Zero-Downtime Deployment and Severity-Based Alert Routing
7 units