Cloud Engineer

Cloud engineers design, build and run the infrastructure that applications use on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. They set up networks, compute and storage, automate them with infrastructure as code, and keep them secure, reliable and within budget.

  • 4 courses
  • 32 lessons
  • ~19h
  • Beginner to Advanced

If you like

  • Designing systems that keep running
  • Automating repetitive work
  • Understanding how internet infrastructure works

Skills you will build

  • Linux administration
  • Cloud networking
  • AWS core services
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Cloud security
  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • CI/CD pipelines

Typical job titles

  • Cloud Engineer
  • Cloud Administrator
  • Solutions Architect
  • Infrastructure Engineer
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Courses in this path

Take them in order, from Beginner to Advanced. A course you finish counts in every career path that includes it.

Beginner

  1. Course 1 of 4Beginner

    Operating Systems

    Why this course: Cloud servers are mostly Linux machines: processes, memory, file systems and the shell.

    • 8 lessons
    • ~6h
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  2. Course 2 of 4Beginner

    Networking

    Why this course: Virtual networks, subnets, DNS and firewalls are the base of every cloud architecture.

    • 8 lessons
    • ~6h
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Intermediate

  1. Course 3 of 4Intermediate

    Cloud Computing

    Why this course: The core of the role: cloud concepts, AWS core services, cloud networking, security and architecture.

    • 8 lessons
    • ~4h
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Advanced

  1. Course 4 of 4Advanced

    DevOps

    Why this course: Automate and operate what you build: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and monitoring.

    • 8 lessons
    • ~4h
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Completing this path

Finish every course of the path to complete it. Each course you finish earns its own certificate of completion.

Course certificates

  • Operating Systems8 lessons left
  • Networking8 lessons left
  • Cloud Computing8 lessons left
  • DevOps8 lessons left

There is no separate certificate for a whole path yet: your proof is the certificate of each course, which anyone can verify.

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