Career Blueprint
Junior Developer →DevOps Engineer
⏱ 24 months•3 years experience•2 current skills
🧱Phase 1
Foundation
9 months
Skills to Develop
Linux systems administrationDocker containerizationBash scriptingNetworking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS)AWS cloud fundamentals
Resources
- 🎓 Linux Academy Linux Essentials Certification
- 📚 The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
- 🔨 Build containerized Python/JavaScript apps with Docker
- 👥 r/sysadmin Reddit community
🏁 Milestone
Deploy a containerized web application to AWS EC2 with proper networking and monitoring
⚡Phase 2
Execution
9 months
Skills to Develop
Kubernetes orchestrationTerraform Infrastructure as CodeCI/CD with GitHub ActionsPrometheus and Grafana monitoringGitOps with ArgoCD
Resources
- 🎓 KodeKloud Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- 📚 Site Reliability Engineering by Google
- 🔨 Build complete CI/CD pipeline for existing projects
- 👥 CNCF Slack community
🏁 Milestone
Implement GitOps deployment pipeline with monitoring for a multi-environment application
👑Phase 3
Authority
6 months
Skills to Develop
Platform engineering patternsMulti-cloud architectureSecurity automation and complianceCost optimization strategiesDevOps culture and practices
Resources
- 🎓 AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- 📚 Team Topologies by Skelton & Pais
- 🔨 Design internal developer platform for team
- 👥 DevOpsDays local meetup speaking
🏁 Milestone
Present platform engineering solution at DevOpsDays and mentor junior developers
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