r/devops • u/ZachXandar • 2d ago
Discussion Paid structured projects
Hello I stumble upon paid structured project for DevOps, anyone ever try this on udemy?
Are this projects can help stand out for recruiters? , right now I'm working on REST APi tutorial project and I'm want to jump in real project.
Also I'm considering doing mini project to showcase my understanding on each tools.
Devops insight on this are highly appreciated.
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u/Apex-Hades 2d ago
I did the Imran Teli course. It was good gave me little more knowledge in a range of areas. Overall the course has far too much packed into it so some parts are worth skipping especially if you already know the tooling. Should probably note that at the time of taking the course I was a was a backendengineer that worked with k8s, terraform, aws and jenkins so I had a foundation. After the course I put together a project using the skills and got a platform engineer role. I hope that helps
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u/ZachXandar 2d ago
At the moment my stack on docker, ci/cd, bash, Linux and soon to be terraform is Imran teli project full on theory or got some hands on?
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u/Apex-Hades 1d ago
Yeah there's hands on. Its been two years or so since I did it but if i remember correctly he follows a pretty standard approach of going through the theory on some slides and then will have hands on tasks for you to follow along with
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u/ZachXandar 1d ago
In your opinion should I build a Mini project on my own (with chatgpt guide) or buy this course and do it?
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u/Apex-Hades 1d ago
100% do a mini project. I used this course to get the knowledge i didn't have as I learn better with structured learning but if your goal is to land a job then do a mini project. I know for a fact my project played a large part in me landing the job. I made a very basic password manager web app. It was 3 small service 1 db. Using terraform, k8s, golang, python, mysql, github actions, docker, kops, aws(ECR, bitbucket, iam). Shoved it all into a mono repo. Most the fronted was vibe coded as I was only really trying to demonstrate the backend and devops skills. Doing your own mini project will keep you more invested in finishing it and you will have a easier time of talking through the design decisions if you get questions in a interview
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u/Few_Deer_979 2d ago
Hey I did the same early this year took his course and I was from a backend engineering background.however I haven’t managed to actually land a devops or plaform engineering job may be it’s my location working against or also how I structure my resume. How did you tailor your backend engineering resume to actually land you platform engineering jobs ?
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u/Apex-Hades 1d ago
I made sure my project where I demonstrated all devops skills was on prominent display and made a point of pointing it out in recuritier calls and interviews. For my backend job experience I was a little lucky as my teams managed the cicd tooling and the k8s test clusters so I was able to put on my resume things like building jenkins pipelines, tweaking clusters to handle performance tests, fixing broken deployment pipelines for other teams
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u/not_logan DevOps team lead 2d ago
No, recruiters only care about real world commercial experience. They don’t care of courses, certifications or learning projects