Cloud and DevOps Academy 2022/2023

Characteristics of studies:

Cloud and DevOps Academy is a two-semester postgraduate study aimed at preparing a graduate to work as a Cloud and DevOps Engineer.

The program is run fully in English and fully in online mode. 

The program includes three modules – Engineering Excellence, DevOps and Cloud, and Project-based practice (internship). It covers the following topics: People in IT, Clean Code, Clean Design, Engineering Operations Model, Software development life cycle and VCS, Advanced Systems Administration, Networking, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, Infrastructure as code, Enterprise Delivery Platform.

The internship and laboratory classes will be run by academic teachers and experienced industry experts from EPAM Systems – a leading IT company.  

Program:

The study program includes 121 hours of lectures and laboratory classes and a three-month lasting internship where students, supervised by industry experts, will get experience in realizing real practical DevOps and Systems Engineering tasks.

Semester 1

• Engineering Excellence: People in IT (lecture: 1hr) 
• Engineering Excellence: Bootcamp  (lecture: 3hrs)
• Engineering Excellence: Clean Code (lecture: 1hr)
• Engineering Excellence: Clean Code (workshops: 1hr)
• Engineering Excellence: Clean Design (lecture 1hr)
• Engineering Excellence: Clean Design (workshops 2hrs)
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Operations Model (lecture: 4hrs)
• Engineering Excellence: Engineering Operations Model (Workshops: 7hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Software development life cycle and VCS (lecture: 2hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Advanced Systems Administration (workshops: 24hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Computer Networks (lecture: 3hrs)
• DevOps &Cloud: CI/CD (lecture: 2hrs)
• DevOps &Cloud: CI/CD (workshops: 3hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS (lecture: 4hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: AWS (workshop: 8hrs)

Semester 2

• DevOps & Cloud: Azure (lecture: 2hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Azure (workshops: 8hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Infrastructure as code (lecture: 2hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Infrastructure as code (workshops: 8hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Enterprise Delivery Platform (lecture: 3hrs)
• DevOps & Cloud: Enterprise Delivery Platform (workshops: 10hrs)

Project based practice (a part of the second semester)

• Introduction (lecture: 6hrs)
• Project work (about 2,5 months includes mentoring and workshops) 
• Presentation of the work (seminar: 4hrs)

Alumnus profile:

The graduate will be familiarized with modern IT-related engineering best practices and with grounded skills in DevOps methodology, version control systems, networking, cloud computing, CI/CD tools, IaC tools and ready to take part in real industry projects as a (Junior) DevOps engineer. In particular, the graduate will be able to: 

• use and apply the Agile principles, formulas, and different operating models in his practice
• use in practice main rules and principles for keeping the code clean
• use and apply the clean design approaches in practice
• apply engineering principles to visualize, analyze and design the development process
• keep the development lifecycle in an efficient manner
• use modern VCSs  in practice
• manage and administrate Windows and Linux operating systems
• use Python for DevOps
• use CI/CD toolset effectively and know how to automate the process and ensure quality and safety for continuous compliance
• use virtualization services with Azure
• use virtualization services with AWS
• use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible
• use modern DevOps tools integrated into the enterprise delivery platform

Duration:

• Two semesters (XI 2022 – VII 2023)

Application deadline:

• 22 X 2022

Recruitment conditions, including admission requirements:

Successful candidates must:

• have BS/MS diploma (engineering, IT, mathematics, physics, economy, or related are preferable)
• pass English and technical test
• have experience in one of the programming languages: Java, JavaScript, C#, or Python

Enrollment way:

• Interested persons are kindly requested to contact us directly

Limit of acceptance:

• 12 min – 25 max

• application form
• consent to the Terms and Conditions
• higher education diploma:
  • for Polish citizens:
    • a copy of the higher education diploma certified by the university that the candidate graduated from
  • for non-polish citizens:
    • an apostilled higher education diploma
• confirmation of making the wire transfer of the registration fee in the amount of  PLN 500
• confirmation of making the payment of the fee for the first semester of studies no later than 14 days before the start of studies