How to Build a DevOps Engineer in Just 6 Months

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In “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” Dr. Frank-N-Furter sings that he can make a man in just seven days. For those in the back of the room, I’ll say it again: We can build DevOps engineers in six months.

By some estimates, in the United States, there are only about 6,800 trained DevOps engineers, but over 250,000 active DevOps engineer job openings.

Maybe these skills could be taught, and learned, and applied in the right ways through an engineer training program. When asked how, exactly, our engineers learned DevOps and cloud engineering skills, “I just Googled it,” was the most common answer.

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