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Engineering Catalog23 Tracks • 1,150 Incidents

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23 Engineering Fields

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From Day-1 CI/CD pipelines to Enterprise Chaos Engineering. Pick a track to begin your on-call shift.

#1

DevOps / CI-CD

Master pipelines, broken builds, artifact packaging, automated deployments, rollbacks, and Git branching workflows.

Core FocusPipelines, build failures, deployments, rollbacks, Git workflows
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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#2

Cloud Engineering

Design and debug cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP: compute VMs, VPC networking, object storage, and managed databases.

Core FocusAWS / Azure / GCP services, VPC, compute, storage, managed services
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#3

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Define SLIs/SLOs, balance error budgets, orchestrate incident responses, eliminate operational toil, and run postmortems.

Core FocusSLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incidents, capacity, toil reduction, postmortems
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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#4

Platform Engineering

Build internal developer platforms (IDP), curate golden paths, enable developer self-service, and standardize templates.

Core FocusInternal developer platforms, golden paths, self-service, templates
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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#5

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Provision reproducible infrastructure with Terraform, OpenTofu, and Pulumi. Debug state drift, lockouts, and module refactoring.

Core FocusTerraform, state, modules, drift, Pulumi/CloudFormation concepts
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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#6

Cloud FinOps & Cost

Audit runaway cloud bills, enforce resource tagging, rightsize overprovisioned compute, and optimize reservation commitments.

Core FocusCost analysis, tagging, rightsizing, reservations/savings plans, anomalies
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#7

DevSecOps

Embed security into delivery pipelines: SAST/DAST automation, secret leakage prevention, SBOM tracking, and container scanning.

Core FocusPipeline security, SAST/DAST, secrets, SBOM, image scanning, supply chain
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#8

Cloud Security & IAM

Enforce least-privilege policies, rotate exposed access keys, remediate public S3 buckets, and configure cloud audit trails.

Core FocusLeast privilege, policies, key rotation, misconfigurations, audits
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#9

Kubernetes & Containers

Troubleshoot CrashLoopBackOff pods, configure ingress controllers, debug network policies, and craft lean Docker multi-stage images.

Core FocusPods, deployments, networking, ingress, Helm, resource limits, debugging
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#10

Observability & Monitoring

Instrument metrics, configure Prometheus alerts, build intuitive Grafana dashboards, query OpenTelemetry distributed traces, and grep structured logs.

Core FocusMetrics, logs, traces, alerting, Prometheus, Grafana, dashboards
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#11

Release & Build Engineering

Orchestrate release trains, semantic versioning, artifact registries, feature flag cutovers, and canary/blue-green deployments.

Core FocusVersioning, artifact repos, release trains, feature flags, canary/blue-green
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#12

Linux / Systems Administration

Investigate zombie processes, out-of-disk inodes, broken systemd unit files, TCP socket exhaustion, and tricky Unix permissions.

Core FocusProcesses, disks, networking, services, permissions, performance
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#13

Cloud Networking

Debug DNS resolution issues, load balancer health checks, NAT gateway routing, security group rules, VPN tunnels, and TLS terminations.

Core FocusDNS, load balancers, routing, firewalls, VPN, CDN, TLS
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#14

Database Reliability (DBRE)

Manage database replication lags, automated failovers, slow query bottlenecks, connection pool starvation, and non-blocking migrations.

Core FocusBackups, replication, failover, slow queries, migrations, capacity
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#15

Incident Management & Production Support

Take the primary on-call pager, triage critical SEV-1 outages, run stakeholder communications, execute runbooks, and lead blameless RCAs.

Core FocusOn-call, triage, comms, escalation, runbooks, RCA
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#16

Configuration Management & Automation

Author idempotent Ansible playbooks, automate operational tasks with Bash and Python, and manage scheduled cron jobs safely.

Core FocusAnsible, scripting (Bash/Python), cron, idempotency
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#17

GitOps (Argo CD & Flux)

Implement declarative continuous delivery with Argo CD and Flux. Resolve sync drift, reconcile loops, and manage cluster application sets.

Core FocusArgo CD / Flux concepts, declarative state, reconciliation, drift
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#18

MLOps / LLMOps

Deploy large language models, orchestrate feature store pipelines, scale GPU worker clusters, and monitor model latency and drift.

Core FocusModel deployment, pipelines, GPU infra, monitoring, versioning
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#19

DataOps

Keep data pipelines healthy: orchestrate Airflow/dbt DAGs, run schema contract verifications, and prevent silent data pipeline corruption.

Core FocusData pipelines, orchestration, quality checks, reliability
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#20

Chaos & Resilience Engineering

Inject network latency, simulate sudden AZ power loss, validate RTO/RPO disaster recovery plans, and lead high-stakes game days.

Core FocusFailure injection, game days, DR, RTO/RPO, failover testing
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#21

Cloud Architecture

Evaluate multi-region trade-offs, design high-availability distributed systems, plan cloud migrations, and conduct Well-Architected reviews.

Core FocusDesign trade-offs, HA, scaling, migration, well-architected reviews
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#22

Developer Experience (DevEx)

Slash CI feedback loops from 25 minutes to 3 minutes, standardize devcontainers, optimize build caches, and streamline onboarding.

Core FocusBuild speed, local dev environments, tooling, onboarding
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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#23

Compliance & Governance

Write Policy-as-Code with OPA / Gatekeeper, gather automated SOC2 / ISO 27001 audit evidence, and manage rigorous change workflows.

Core FocusPolicy-as-code, audit evidence, standards, change management
5 Levels • 50 Scenarios
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