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Every Ops discipline. One map.

42 disciplines across 7 clusters — from DevOps and SRE to LLMOps and FinOps. Pick a star, get a 90-day flight plan.

Engineering galaxy map of focus areas

Cloud & Cost 2 tracks

Security & Governance 6 tracks

Quality Engineering 2 tracks

Business & People Ops 6 tracks

Featured 90-day paths

Foundation → core → tools → projects → advanced → interview-ready. Two to three hours a day.

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Role-based roadmaps

Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced. Skills, tools, certifications, projects, and the mistakes to skip.

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DevOps Engineer

Master CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containerization, and cloud platforms. A complete roadmap from Linux fundamentals to advanced GitOps workflows and multi-cloud architecture for aspiring DevOps engineers.

  1. Beginner: Build core foundations in Linux, networking,…
  2. Intermediate: Apply infrastructure as code, build producti…
  3. Advanced: Design multi-cloud architectures, implement …

Site Reliability Engineer

Learn SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and reliability engineering principles. This roadmap guides you from operations fundamentals to advanced production reliability practices used at scale.

  1. Beginner: Understand reliability concepts, on-call pra…
  2. Intermediate: Define and track SLOs in production, lead in…
  3. Advanced: Architect reliability programs across engine…

Platform Engineer

Build internal developer platforms that reduce cognitive load and accelerate software delivery. Learn Backstage, Kubernetes platform patterns, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure design.

  1. Beginner: Understand the platform engineering discipli…
  2. Intermediate: Design and build self-service platform capab…
  3. Advanced: Lead platform product strategy, architect mu…

Kubernetes Engineer

Go deep on Kubernetes — from cluster installation and workload management to multi-cluster federation, custom operators, and production-grade platform engineering with service meshes.

  1. Beginner: Master Kubernetes core concepts: pods, deplo…
  2. Intermediate: Operate production Kubernetes clusters with …
  3. Advanced: Build and manage multi-cluster platforms, wr…

MLOps Engineer

Productionize machine learning models with robust training pipelines, model registries, feature stores, and deployment patterns. Bridge data science and production engineering for reliable ML systems.

  1. Beginner: Understand ML development lifecycle, data ve…
  2. Intermediate: Build automated training pipelines, model re…
  3. Advanced: Architect enterprise ML platforms, manage mu…

Security Engineer

Build and operate application and infrastructure security programs. Learn vulnerability management, identity and access, cloud security posture, secure SDLC integration, and incident response for security events.

  1. Beginner: Build foundational security knowledge: netwo…
  2. Intermediate: Implement security controls across cloud inf…
  3. Advanced: Lead security architecture, design security …

The tools, categorized and compared

73 categories — top 10 tools each, with honest pros, cons, and alternatives.

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A worldwide registry of real, official certifications — exam codes, formats, costs, renewal, and official links. No invented badges.

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Referral job board

Real referrals posted by employees who will walk your CV in the door. Community-curated, reviewed manually.

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hybrid India

Senior DevOps Engineer

Acme FinTech · Bengaluru

AWSKubernetesTerraformJenkins

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remote India

Site Reliability Engineer II

Nimbus Cloud · Hyderabad

GCPKubernetesPrometheusGo

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remote Germany

Platform Engineer (IDP)

Orbital Software · Berlin

KubernetesBackstageArgo CDCrossplane

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