05 — Career Roadmaps
DevOps Engineer Roadmap
10 stages · 6–9 months focused · Leads to Junior / Associate DevOps or Platform Engineer
Build, automate, ship, and operate software reliably. This path is built for beginners and modernized for how teams actually hire in 2026 — follow it top to bottom, build the projects, and tick off each stage as you go.
What's hot in 2026 — weave these in as you learn
- Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
- GitOps (Argo CD / Flux) over click-ops
- AI-assisted ops & "shift-left" with Copilot/Claude in pipelines
- Supply-chain security (SBOM, signed artifacts)
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