1:1 Cloud & DevOps · Starts by appointment

Cloud and DevOps,taught one-to-one by Eddie.

One track, one mentor. Eddie has spent over ten years running infrastructure in Australia — at Huawei Australia, Superloop, MLC and in fintech — and is a DevSecOps Lead today. He takes you from Linux and networking through Terraform, CI/CD and Kubernetes, then through the interviews that actually get cloud offers here.

Until offered
support continues
Sydney / Online
in person or remote
1:1
weekly with Eddie

Real, verifiable outcomes

We let the offers do the talking

$102K

Avg. graduate salary (AUD)

5.0★

Verified Google reviews

84%+

Offer rate (course completers)

99.95%

Service satisfaction rate

Where our graduates landed

Woolworths GroupDeloitteLexisNexisLuminance AIKarbonCommunetHerts Australia

Who teaches you

Every session is Eddie

Not a rotating pool of tutors. The person who has carried the pager in Australian telco and fintech infrastructure is the person who sits with you every week.

Eddie, cloud and DevOps mentor

Eddie

DevSecOps Lead · Course director

  • 10+ years of Australian operations and AWS cloud

    A decade of running real production infrastructure in this market — not a syllabus learned to teach from.

  • Huawei Australia, Superloop, MLC and fintech

    Years inside major telecommunications and financial companies, where uptime is the product.

  • DevSecOps Lead at a global tech company today

    He is still doing the job he teaches, so what you learn matches what teams are hiring for right now.

  • Lead instructor and director of the DevOps programme

    Terraform, networking, CI/CD, Bitbucket, Jenkins and the rest — and years of coaching students into their first DevOps role.

Where people get stuck going into cloud

You have certificates but no hands

A cloud certification proves you can answer multiple choice. Interviewers ask you to design a VPC, debug a failing pipeline, and explain why a pod will not start. You build all of that here.

You are in IT support and cannot get out

Support experience is a real asset in cloud interviews — most people just present it wrong. We reframe what you already do and add the automation and IaC work that moves you up.

You are a developer wanting to move to platform

You can already code, so the gap is Linux, networking, and operating things you did not write. That gap is exactly what the first stage closes.

What you will actually use

The stack Australian cloud and DevOps job ads ask for.

AWSAzureLinuxTerraformKubernetesDockerJenkinsGitLab CIBitbucket PipelinesAnsiblePythonBashNetworkingPrometheusGrafanaCloudFormationIAMDevSecOpsGit

Six layers, taught in order

Cloud roles fail candidates at the bottom of the stack, not the top. We build from Linux upward so nothing underneath you is guesswork.

Linux and the command line

Process, memory, disk, permissions, systemd, logs. The layer every cloud incident eventually lands on.

Networking

TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancers, VPC and subnet design — the questions that separate candidates.

AWS and Azure

Compute, storage, networking, IAM, managed databases, and what each service actually costs to run.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform properly: modules, remote state, workspaces, drift, and reviewing a plan before you apply it.

Containers and Kubernetes

Docker images worth shipping, then Kubernetes deployments, services, ingress, Helm and troubleshooting.

CI/CD and observability

Pipelines that build, test, scan and deploy — plus metrics, dashboards and alerts that mean something.

What Eddie works through with you

Three stages, one outcome — and support continues until you are offered.

Stage 1 · Ground and diagnose

Linux, networking and cloud fundamentals, and an honest read on where you actually are.

  • Intake diagnostic: Linux, networking, scripting, cloud
  • Linux administration and the command line you will live in
  • Networking that cloud roles are interviewed on: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPC
  • AWS core services, accounts, IAM and cost basics
  • Python and Bash for automation, not for algorithm puzzles

Stage 2 · Build a platform you can show

Infrastructure as code, pipelines and Kubernetes — built and deployed, not just read about.

  • Terraform from module design to remote state and workspaces
  • CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins, GitLab CI and Bitbucket Pipelines
  • Docker, then Kubernetes — deployments, services, ingress, Helm
  • Observability that gets you paged correctly: Prometheus, Grafana, logging
  • DevSecOps: secrets, scanning and least privilege built in
  • An end-to-end platform project you can walk an interviewer through

Stage 3 · Interview and offer

Cloud interviews are their own thing — scenario questions, troubleshooting, and architectural judgement.

  • Resume and LinkedIn rebuilt for cloud and DevOps keywords, ATS-ready
  • Scenario interviews: an outage at 2am, what do you do first
  • Troubleshooting drills across Linux, networking and Kubernetes
  • Cloud architecture and design rounds, whiteboard and verbal
  • On-call, incident response and SRE culture questions
  • Application strategy, referrals and salary negotiation

Where this leads

The offers cloud students go for

Cloud is one of the few areas where a first Australian role and a long-term career path are the same direction — you can enter through support or systems work and keep climbing without changing tracks.

DevOps Engineer

Pipelines, automation and the platform developers ship on.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Reliability, on-call, incident response and error budgets.

Cloud Engineer

Designing and running workloads on AWS or Azure.

Platform Engineer

Internal developer platforms, Kubernetes and golden paths.

DevSecOps Engineer

Security built into the pipeline — the direction Eddie works in today.

Systems / Support Engineer

A realistic first Australian role, and a proven route into cloud.

Who hires for these roles in Australia

TelecommunicationsBanking and fintechGovernment and public sectorManaged service providersSaaS and product companiesMining, energy and logistics

Our published offers list real companies and real salaries, including students on 485 graduate visas. Check them rather than take our word for it.

One track, one price

There is no cheaper tier taught by someone else. Every session is Eddie, and support continues until you are offered.

1:1 Cloud & DevOps mentoring

Taught by Eddie

$9,950

Until offered · Sydney or online · very few places per intake

What you get

  • Weekly 1:1 with Eddie himself, never handed to another tutor
  • Intake diagnostic across Linux, networking, scripting and cloud
  • AWS and Azure, taught against real workloads and real costs
  • Terraform, CI/CD and Kubernetes built end to end
  • A platform project you can walk an interviewer through
  • DevSecOps practice from the engineer who leads it today
  • Cloud-keyword resume rebuild and LinkedIn optimisation
  • Scenario, troubleshooting and architecture interview drills
  • Referrals, application strategy and salary negotiation
  • SmartApply extension and the coaching portal

Places are limited because Eddie teaches every session personally while working full time as a DevSecOps Lead.

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  • The real Software Engineer or DevOps course, not a demo
  • Coding challenges, the interview question bank and AI mock interviews
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Learn cloud from someone still doing it

Start with the diagnostic. Eddie will tell you honestly how far you are from a cloud role in this market, and what the fastest route there looks like for you.

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