Cloud Architect¶
Duration: 20–28 weeks · Difficulty: expert · Badge: Architecture
Multi-cloud design, IaC at scale, security architecture, and production patterns.
Complete roadmap¶
Target audience¶
Engineers who want the Cloud Architect skill profile and job outcomes below.
Job roles¶
- Cloud Architect
- Solutions Architect
- Principal Engineer
Expected salary ranges¶
Senior / principal architecture roles — treat as directional guidance only.
Prerequisites¶
- Comfort with a laptop and a terminal
- Complete earlier phases before later ones when marked ready
- Prefer the Getting Started overview if you are new to the academy
Phases¶
Clouds¶
- AWS — ready · 20 tutorials
- Azure — stub / coming soon
- Google Cloud — stub / coming soon
IaC & Delivery¶
- Terraform — ready · 20 tutorials
- Kubernetes — ready · 20 tutorials
- GitLab CI/CD — ready · 20 tutorials
Architecture¶
- Cloud Architecture — stub / coming soon
- Security — stub / coming soon
- Site Reliability Engineering — planned
Skills gained¶
- Ordered mastery of the technologies on this path
- Hands-on labs and production-oriented habits
- Interview and certification readiness for mapped exams
Projects¶
See the Projects catalog and Capstones. Map picks to this path’s technologies.
Capstone¶
Choose a capstone that exercises the final phases of this path (for example Status API for DevOps / Kubernetes, or the Python automation framework for AI for DevOps).
Interview roadmap¶
- Finish ready technology tracks on this path
- Use Interview Guides per technology
- Rehearse troubleshooting stories from labs
Certification roadmap¶
AWS SAP, Azure AZ-305, Google PCA
Related career paths¶
Estimated duration¶
20–28 weeks of focused study (tutorials + labs). Stretch if you are new to Linux or cloud.