1. Lines and paths

Role path

TechOps / IT Operations Engineer

Keep servers, networks, accounts and devices running, and grow into DevOps or security.

7 tools12 courses6 lines69 lessons open4 career stages41 h in total

Tools this role uses

The labs and templates for real work that the techops / it operations engineer route opens. Use them on the job today; the courses below teach why they work.

  1. Fresher

    Station 1TechOps: Linux, Networks and IT OperationsKeep a company's technology running: Linux, shell scripts, networks, accounts and MFA, a fleet of devices, and a service desk that handles incidents and changes well.Beginner6 lessons3.5 h6 episodes

  2. Change to the System Design line

    Station 2How the Web WorksFollow one request from a phone to a server and back, design APIs that survive real networks, and put numbers on speed, load and reliability.Beginner6 lessons3 h6 episodes

  3. Change to the Cybersecurity line

    Station 3Security FoundationsHow attacks work and how organisations defend: threats, identity, cryptography, networks, cloud and the human side.Beginner6 lessons3.5 h6 episodes

  4. Junior

    Change to the Developer Foundations line

    Station 4Your Developer SetupSet up a professional developer workstation on Windows or macOS, get comfortable in the terminal and VS Code, and add the team tools that keep everyone's code consistent.Beginner4 lessons2.5 h4 episodes
  5. Station 5Git from the InsideUnderstand how Git really works, from snapshots and the staging area to branches, conflicts, safe history rewriting, undo and the objects inside .git, by running every command yourself.Beginner7 lessons4.5 h7 episodes

  6. Change to the System Design line

    Station 6SQL & Data ModelingDesign PostgreSQL tables that keep every fact in one place, write the SQL behind real reports, make queries fast with the right indexes, and keep data correct under concurrent writes and live schema changes.Beginner6 lessons4 h6 episodes

  7. Mid-level

    Change to the Engineering Roles line

    Station 7DevOps: CI/CD, Containers and Infrastructure as CodeAutomate the path from commit to production: CI pipelines people trust, small safe containers, Kubernetes basics, infrastructure as code, safe releases, a secure supply chain and the DORA metrics.Intermediate6 lessons4 h6 episodes

  8. Change to the System Design line

    Station 8Running Software in ProductionLearn to see what your software is doing in production, keep it secure, and ship changes safely with a rollback that takes one command.Intermediate3 lessons2 h3 episodes

  9. Change to the Cybersecurity line

    Station 9Defensive Security: SOC, Detection and ResponseWork in a security operations centre: logs and SIEM, detection rules, alert triage, threat hunting and incident response.Intermediate6 lessons3.5 h6 episodes

  10. Senior

    Change to the Engineering Roles line

    Station 10Site Reliability EngineeringRun reliable services with SLOs and error budgets, OpenTelemetry observability, burn-rate alerts, calm incident command, blameless postmortems, capacity planning and less toil.Advanced7 lessons4.5 h7 episodes

  11. Change to the Business & Finance line

    Station 11Finance for Tech TeamsRead the numbers behind technology: P&L, unit economics, budgets, cloud costs, business cases and vendor deals.Beginner6 lessons3.5 h6 episodes

  12. Change to the Leadership line

    Station 12From Engineer to Tech LeadLead the technical work of a team: direction, design reviews, delegation, mentoring, predictable delivery and a working partnership with product and engineering management.Intermediate6 lessons3.5 h6 episodes