INTERMEDIATE · TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL

Cloud Engineering
& DevOps

Build, deploy, and scale cloud-native applications on AWS and Azure — with the DevOps culture and toolchain to ship reliably, every time.

DURATION14 Weeks

LEVELIntermediate to Advanced

AWARDProfessional Certificate in Cloud & DevOps

PREREQUISITESBasic Linux & programming fundamentals

DELIVERYOnline live + hands-on cloud labs

NEXT INTAKEQuarterly cohorts

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PROGRAMME IMPACT

Graduates in cloud/DevOps roles within 6 months81%

Average salary increase post-programme1.9×

Cloud lab hours per student120+

Certification pass rate (AWS/Azure)92%

Programme Overview

Africa’s cloud market is growing faster than any other region, with hyperscalers investing billions in data centres from Cairo to Cape Town. Every business going digital needs engineers who can architect, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure — and the demand vastly outstrips supply.

This programme gives you the hands-on skills to architect solutions on AWS and Microsoft Azure, automate infrastructure as code, build CI/CD pipelines, containerise applications, and embed security into every layer. You will graduate with cloud certifications, a strong GitHub portfolio, and the practical confidence that comes from 120+ hours of live cloud lab work.

What You Will Study

MODULE 01

Cloud Fundamentals & AWS Core

EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda. Understanding cloud economics and the shared responsibility model. Core AWS certification preparation.

MODULE 02

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. Provisioning and managing repeatable, version-controlled infrastructure. Hands-on labs in real AWS environments.

MODULE 03

Containers & Kubernetes

Docker fundamentals, writing Dockerfiles, container orchestration with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS). Helm charts and managing containerised workloads at scale.

MODULE 04

CI/CD & DevOps Practices

Git workflows, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. Building automated test and deployment pipelines. Blue-green deployments and rollback strategies.

MODULE 05

Cloud Security & Compliance

Identity and access management, encryption, secrets management, WAF, and cloud security posture management. Compliance frameworks relevant to African data regulations.

MODULE 06

Site Reliability Engineering & Observability

Monitoring, logging, alerting with CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. SLOs, SLIs, error budgets. Incident management and blameless postmortems.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this programme, you will be able to:

Architect and deploy cloud-native applications on AWS and Azure with confidence

Write infrastructure as code using Terraform and CloudFormation

Build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines that automate testing and deployment

Containerise applications and orchestrate them with Kubernetes

Apply cloud security best practices across infrastructure and application layers

Monitor, observe, and maintain production systems using SRE principles

Who Is This For?

Designed for software developers, system administrators, IT professionals, and technically minded career changers who want to specialise in cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering. Basic Linux command-line comfort and some programming experience are required. Excellent preparation for AWS Solutions Architect Associate and Microsoft Azure Administrator certifications.

“Before this programme I was a junior sysadmin managing on-premise servers. Six months after graduating I was a Cloud Engineer at a Nairobi tech firm, managing Kubernetes clusters and building deployment pipelines for three product teams. The hands-on labs made all the difference.”

— Grace N., Cloud Engineer — Nairobi, Kenya