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Cloud & Platform Engineer
Automate infrastructure and platforms with Python.
Advanced ~14 weeks·Platform, SRE and cloud engineers.
Recommended topic order
- 1Python Fundamentals
- 2http-clients
- 3Automation & Scripting
- 4cli
- 5Testing
- 6Cloud & DevOps
- 7Security
Weekly learning plan
Weeks 1–3
- · Scripting & CLIs
- · HTTP & SDK integrations
Weeks 4–7
- · Infra automation
- · Testing automation code
Weeks 8–11
- · Docker & CI/CD
- · GitHub Actions
Weeks 12–14
- · AWS & GCP automation
- · Secrets & logging
Required projects
- Cloud resource manager CLI
- Infra automation tool
- CI/CD pipeline
Interview topics
SDK usageIdempotent automationCI/CDSecretsContainers
Portfolio expectations
- · A packaged cloud-automation CLI with tests and CI
Job-readiness checklist
- Automates cloud APIs idempotently
- Builds tested CLIs and CI/CD pipelines
- Manages secrets and config safely
- Containerizes tooling
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Focus areas
Python scriptingSDKsCLI applicationsAPI integrationsInfrastructure automationLoggingTestingContainersCI/CDAWS automationGCP automation
Skill prerequisites
fundamentals