DevOps Engineer Career Program: 10 months, six production projects
The DevOps Engineer Career Program is Techcake's longest programme: 4 months of training followed by 6 months of mentored project-based training at our Kannur campus. You finish with a portfolio of six production-style projects, a training completion certificate, a rewritten resume and LinkedIn profile, recorded mock interviews and referrals through our mentor network. Fees are paid upfront with EMI available, and there is no job guarantee. The next batch date is shown on this page.
The two phases in a student's words
You spend the first four months learning and the next six months doing. That is the simplest way to describe the programme, and it is how most students explain it to their parents.
Phase 1 is the same syllabus as our DevOps Engineer course: Linux and networking, Docker, Git and CI/CD, then AWS with Terraform. You can attend Phase 1 online live, hybrid or in the classroom at Taliparamba. One student put it this way: "In Phase 1, I was learning the tools. In Phase 2, I was responsible for something that had to keep running."
Phase 2 is six months on campus. You work through six projects in sequence, each one building on the last, with a working engineer reviewing your work. It is the same format as our standalone DevOps project-based training, except that here it follows directly from your own Phase 1 and the mentors already know your gaps. Phase 2 is only offered on campus, because the reviews, pair sessions and the daily standups do not work well over a call.
The six projects
Project 1: Production Linux Infrastructure (weeks 1 to 4). You set up and harden a small fleet of Linux servers the way an operations team would: users and sudo policy, SSH hardening, storage and LVM, systemd services, log rotation, patching and a written runbook. By the end of week 4 you are expected to hand over a server that another student can operate from your documentation alone.
Project 2: Containerized Application Stack with Docker (weeks 5 to 8). You take a multi-service application (web, API, database, cache) and containerise it properly: sensible Dockerfiles, image size and layer discipline, Docker Compose for local and staging, health checks, secrets handling and a registry workflow. The application from this project is what you deploy in every later project.
Project 3: CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins or GitHub Actions (weeks 9 to 12). You build the pipeline that tests, builds, scans and ships the containerised application from Project 2. You choose Jenkins or GitHub Actions with your mentor, set up branch strategy, artefact versioning, environment promotion and rollback, and you break the pipeline on purpose to practise fixing it.
Project 4: AWS Cloud Migration (weeks 13 to 16). You move the stack to AWS using EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch and an Application Load Balancer. The focus is on doing it like a real migration: network design first, least-privilege IAM, managed database with backups, monitoring and alarms, and a cost review at the end so you understand what you have actually provisioned.
Project 5: Kubernetes Production Deployment on EKS (weeks 17 to 21). You deploy the same application to Amazon EKS using Helm charts, an ingress controller, Horizontal Pod Autoscaling, resource requests and limits, and rolling updates. Five weeks are given to this project because Kubernetes is where most candidates are tested hardest in interviews.
Project 6: Infrastructure as Code plus Observability (weeks 22 to 25). You rebuild the whole environment from Terraform so that it can be destroyed and recreated on demand, and you add Prometheus and Grafana for metrics, dashboards and alerting. This is the project that ties the portfolio together, and it is the one you will walk an interviewer through.
Mentors
Amitha, Program Lead for DevOps at Techcake, leads Phase 1 and teaches the core syllabus. Phase 2 is mentored by working engineers from our industry partner, an AWS consulting company, who review your projects the way they review work inside their own team.
Two industry mentors also take sessions and mock interviews across the programme: Nishad Salam, a working engineer based in Kuwait, and Prajith P, SRE Lead at an airline in Malaysia. The curriculum itself is designed by Jobin Joseph, Techcake's founder, who has spent more than 17 years running production cloud systems and holds the AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Security Specialty and RHCE certifications.
Placement support
Placement support here means five specific things, and nothing more than that. We do not guarantee a job.
- A 1-on-1 resume review with a working engineer, rewritten around your six projects.
- A LinkedIn profile rebuild, so that recruiters searching for DevOps candidates in Kerala can find you.
- Technical and HR mock interviews, recorded and debriefed with you afterwards.
- Access to the alumni Slack and WhatsApp groups, where openings are shared by people already placed.
- Direct referrals through the mentor network when a mentor believes you are ready for a role.
You can read about students who have been placed on our placements page. Abdul Rahman M P, now TechOps Engineer at HAZERCLOUD, was placed within 3 weeks of completing his course and says the team helped with his resume and interview prep.
Eligibility
You do not need prior DevOps experience. You need a basic comfort with computers, willingness to use the Linux command line every day, and the time to attend Phase 2 on campus in Kannur for six months. Graduates from any stream, final year students who can commit to the schedule, and working professionals moving from support, testing or system administration roles all fit. If you are unsure whether you are ready, the Linux System Administration course is a good place to start before applying.
4-month course vs 10-month programme
| DevOps Engineer course | DevOps Engineer Career Program | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 4 months, about 16 weeks | 10 months: 4 months training plus 6 months project-based training |
| What you get | Four modules, labs, training completion certificate | Everything in the course plus six production projects, portfolio, resume and LinkedIn rewrite, mock interviews, referrals, alumni groups |
| Who it suits | Someone who wants the skills and will build their own portfolio | Someone who wants mentored production experience before their first DevOps interview |
| Mode | Online Live, Hybrid or Offline | Phase 1 Online Live, Hybrid or Offline; Phase 2 on campus in Kannur |
| Outcome | You can pass a technical screen for junior DevOps roles | You can walk an interviewer through six projects you built and operated |
Formerly DevOps Professional
If you were looking for the Techcake "DevOps Professional" programme, this is it. That name has been retired and the programme has been folded into the DevOps Engineer Career Program with the same two-phase structure. Students who enrolled under the old name are on the same track. See the full project-based training hub for the other tracks we run.
Where AWS fits in Phase 2
Frequently asked questions
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