DevOps Post Graduate Program

The DevOps Post Graduate Program is the accelerator for your career. This immersive program, jointly designed by Caltech CTME and Simplilearn, prepares you to develop cloud-native and mobile applications, modernized architectures, and building expertise in agile operations. You bring the drive and curiosity, and we'll provide a world-class course for becoming an expert software developer.

Program Overview

This DevOps program, designed in collaboration with Simplilearn, will prepare you for a career in DevOps, bridging the gap between software developers and operations teams.  Through Simplilearn's proven Blended Learning curriculum of live-online, on-demand, project-based learning, interactive labs, and 24/7 support, you will learn state-of-the-art approaches, such as containerization and micro-services. The DevOps PGP experience prepares you for software engineering roles in top-tier technology organizations.

Program Advantage

This Post Graduate Program in DevOps is in collaboration with Simplilearn. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Simplilearn provides highly effective online training across a range of information technology and software disciplines. In its ten-year history, Simplilearn has trained over one million professionals and 1,000 companies across 150 countries get trained, acquire certifications, and reach their business and career goals.

Upon completion of the program, you will receive:

• A Caltech CTME Post Graduate Certificate
• A Bonafide Certificate from Caltech CTME
• Comprehensive learning path performance report 
• Membership in the CTME Circle network
• Up to 25 CEUs (continuing education units)

Blended Learning Approach

Simplilearn’s Blended Learning model brings classroom learning experience online with its world-class Learning Management System (LMS). It combines instructor-led training in virtual classrooms, self-paced learning, and personalized mentoring to provide an immersive learning experience.

The program also provides 24/7 teaching assistance, online practice labs to do real-world projects, and a vibrant social forum where you can discuss ideas with your peers.

Simplilearn's Blended Learning promotes learning by doing and not just watching.

Program Details

Fast-track your career in the DevOps field via a comprehensive curriculum covering the concepts of DevOps, CI/CD, Configuration Management, and tools including Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, and many more.

Skills and Tools

Project-Based Learning

Dockerizing Jenkins Pipeline
Demonstrate continuous integration and delivery by Dockerizing Jenkins Pipeline.

Deploy Angular Application in Docker Container
Deploy an Angular application in Docker. The Angular application should be built with Angular CLI along with Docker Compose for development and production.

Branching Development Model
Build a branching model to help your team understand the Git workflow for faster work integration.

Architecting Jenkins Pipeline for Scale
Use Jenkins to set up a distributed pipeline that will compile and test a Maven project on two different slave nodes.

Containerizing application and scanning its Docker image with DTR
Deploy a Spring Boot application on Docker for a retail company that develops multiple web applications.

Who Should Attend

The Caltech CTME DevOps Post Graduate Program is for early to mid-career professionals in software development who need a solid understanding of cutting-edge development approaches, architectures, and technologies. For aspiring technologists, a background in computer science or programming is preferred, but not mandatory. Admittance is selective.

Schedule

The DevOps Post Graduate Program runs multiple times per year. The duration is roughly nine months from start to finish.

Fee: $4849 USD for the entire program.

Hours and Credits: Participants will earn 25 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

Computer Setup

There are no specific guidelines for your computer hardware, but we would recommend that you update to the latest version of your OS.

Our labs are hosted in the cloud, so no additional download is required there. For the live class, you can run a temporary application if you haven't installed the latest version of Cisco WebEx (https://www.webex.com/downloads.html). You would also need to ensure that pop-ups are enabled in order to access the live class.

The browser requirements are as follows:

Instructors

Rick Hefner, PhD - Program Director, Caltech CTME

Matthew Dartez - Senior Instructor, Caltech CTME

Eugene Lai - Senior Instructor, Caltech CTME