DevOps Engineering – Beyond the Ordinary
- Next start date : 15 September 2025
- Study Mode : Delivery: Hybrid (Johannesburg Campus + Virtual)
- Campuses : Johannesburg
Overview: This programme equips graduates with the skills and industry best practices required to design, automate, and manage scalable, high-performance infrastructure. Core areas include CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), cloud computing, containerisation, microservices, observability, and security automation. Learners will gain hands-on experience with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, and cloud-native services.
Programme Duration: 38 Weeks
Key Learning Outcomes
✔︎ Build GitOps pipelines with ArgoCD
✔︎ Secure containers using Trivy and Falco
✔︎ Implement blue-green deployments on AWS EKS
✔︎ Automate cloud provisioning with Terraform
Core Modules
| Module | Key Topics | Weeks |
| 1. DevOps Fundamentals | Lifecycle, Git, Agile/Scrum | 6 |
| 2. Tooling & Automation | Docker, Jenkins, scripting | 8 |
| 3. Monitoring & Observability | Prometheus, ELK, SLOs | 6 |
| 4. DevSecOps | Trivy, SonarQube, Vault | 6 |
| 5. IaC with Terraform | Modules, state, automation | 8 |
Certification Pathways
| Certification | Body | Duration | Prerequisites |
| AWS DevOps Engineer | AWS | 7 weeks | Modules 1–5 |
| Azure DevOps Engineer | Microsoft | 7 weeks | Modules 1–5 |
| Terraform Certified | HashiCorp | 8 weeks | Module 5 |
Capstone Experience
Microservice deployment pipeline with CI/CD and IaC
Cloud-native monitoring system with security integrations
Technology Stack
◉ Containers: Docker, Podman
◉ IaC: Terraform, Pulumi
◉ Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana Loki
Career Acceleration
Roles:
DevOps Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Cloud Infrastructure Architect
