Cloud DevOps Engineer
In this program, you’ll develop the skills you need to join the rapidly growing cloud devops field.
Nanodegree Program
4.6
Intermediate
53 hours
Udacity school of
DevOps
Dive into DevOps with comprehensive courses that teach automation, continuous integration, and cloud infrastructure management. From optimizing workflows to boosting team collaboration, gain the vital skills that drive innovation and success in modern software development.
Start with a curated collection
Each collection brings related courses together into focused tracks, so you can build expertise with clarity and direction.
DevOps course collections
Agile Methodologies and Frameworks
Agile methodologies empower teams to deliver value faster and adapt smoothly to changing project needs. These courses cover essential frameworks like Scrum and Kanban, helping you build strong collaboration skills, improve workflows, and lead projects with greater efficiency and confidence.
Cloud Computing and Architecture - AWS & Azure
Dive into cutting-edge cloud expertise with these courses. Learn to design scalable architectures, build AI-powered solutions, and automate DevOps workflows. Develop practical skills to manage secure, cost-efficient environments on AWS and Azure while preparing for top certifications and real-world success.
Application Deployment and CI/CD
Build, test, and launch apps faster with expert-led courses in CI/CD, DevOps, version control, cloud deployment, and the best software development techniques.
DevOps Fundamentals & Infrastructure Development
Explore our comprehensive DevOps courses designed to build your expertise in cloud infrastructure, security, DevOps, and modernization. Gain practical skills using AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and more—perfect for advancing your tech career.
Most popular DevOps courses
Start building real-world DevOps skills with these carefully selected courses.
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Site Reliability Engineer
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Merge cloud infrastructure with DevOps practices on Microsoft Azure. This Nanodegree program covers how to deploy, test, and monitor applications while mastering infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and quality assurance.
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Discovering DevOps
Discover how streamlined collaboration between development and operations teams drives better innovation. This course covers all of the high-level, core principles of DevOps.
Course
Discovery
1 hour
Build CI/CD Pipelines, Monitoring, and Logging
Dive into the essentials of continuous integration by building complete CI/CD pipelines from start to finish. Gain hands-on experience with tools like GitHub Actions, learning to create and monitor deployment pipelines that boost productivity and enhance software reliability.
Course
Intermediate
13 hours
GitHub Actions
Unlock the power of GitHub Actions and supercharge your development workflow. This beginner-friendly, hands-on course teaches you how to master automating CI/CD processes, create custom workflows, and optimize deployments.
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Server Deployment and Containerization
Build, manage, and deploy modern applications with real-world experience in containerization and cloud infrastructure. Guided by experts, you’ll master Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS tools while creating a fully automated CI/CD pipeline to bring your apps to life.
Course
Intermediate
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High demand. Top pay. Real skills.
$133k
median U.S. base pay for software developers.
15%
projected growth for software developer roles by 2034.
317k+
tech & IT job openings each year in the U.S., including DevOps.
U.S. figures; salary and demand vary by role, experience, and location.
U.S. BLS, OEWS May 2024 (SOC 15-1252)
U.S. BLS, Occupational Outlook Handbook
U.S. BLS, Occupational Outlook Handbook — Computer & Information Technology Occupations
Build your career in DevOps
See how learning in this school connects to real-world roles, the core skills they require, and where to start building the right expertise.
Career paths
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineer
DevOps Engineers automate software delivery and streamline development workflows. They build CI/CD pipelines, manage infrastructure, and ensure fast, reliable releases across environments.
Key role skills
Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery
Automate infrastructure and deployment workflows
Monitor system performance and ensure reliability
High-Performance Database Architecture
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)
SREs design and operate scalable, reliable, and highly available systems. They work across infrastructure, automation, monitoring, and incident response to ensure services run efficiently, and deliver a dependable experience for users.
Key role skills
Set SLOs/SLIs and manage error budgets
Automate monitoring, alerting, and incident response
Build scalable, highly available infrastructure
Reduce toil through automation
Platform Engineer
Platform Engineers build and maintain the core infrastructure and internal platforms that enable development teams to deliver software efficiently. They work across cloud services, automation, tooling, and system reliability.
Key role skills
Build internal platforms and self-service tooling
Manage cloud infrastructure as code
Standardize CI/CD and developer workflows
Ensure security, scalability, and consistency
Cloud DevOps Engineer
Cloud DevOps Engineers design, automate, and manage cloud-based infrastructure and delivery pipelines to support fast and reliable software releases. They work across CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, monitoring, and infrastructure as code.
Key role skills
Automate cloud infrastructure and pipelines
Implement CI/CD across cloud platforms
Apply infrastructure as code (IaC)
Monitor, secure, and scale cloud workloads
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