EarnWithDevOpsProduction Systems Engineering.
Outage Forensics.
Architectural Defense.
The natural next step for engineers who have finished our free training path and are ready to master real-world production engineering. You build resilient distributed architectures from scratch, triage real Sev-1 outages from telemetry logs, and defend your technical trade-offs before an engineering review board.
Twelve intensive weekends of advanced production training. Master the capabilities real engineering teams demand: systems judgment under hard constraints, telemetry diagnosis under pressure, and defending architectural decisions with evidence.
Charged in naira via Paystack at the approximate equivalent; your bank handles the conversion.
Guided Sandboxes vs. Real Production Systems
Why cookbook tutorials fail to build the judgment required for real production infrastructure roles.
The Guided Sandbox Path
You follow linear steps in an isolated environment engineered to succeed. You copy predefined manifests, run pre-scripted verification commands, and receive a completion badge. You never have to justify an architectural tradeoff, cost boundary, or failure mode—because every critical decision was made before you started.
The EWD Production Training
You receive operational requirements, budget limits, and latency SLOs. What you build must reliably deploy, pass synthetic load tests, and survive automated teardown and recreation. You verify your architecture directly on the web platform with instant rubrics scoring, followed by AI-driven oral defense question drills that probe your exact technical trade-offs and git commits.
The 3-Part Weekend Rhythm
A structured, high-accountability cadence engineered specifically for working engineers.
Architecture Presentation & Challenge Kickoff
A high-signal live architectural masterclass where the instructor breaks down distributed production topologies, hard operational constraints, and failure modes. We analyze the week's Sev-1 Cold Case post-mortem and kick off the live architecture challenge.
Interactive AMA & Systems Office Hours
An interactive live Ask-Me-Anything session dedicated to getting candidates unblocked. Bring your distributed design questions, debug edge cases, explore alternative mitigations under budget caps, and receive real-time instructor feedback.
Web ADR Verification & AI Oral Defense
No Sunday calls required. Submit your architecture code patch and ADR directly on the Kolo web platform. Get instant deterministic pass/fail grading across 5 dimensions, and complete personalized AI-proctored oral defense question drills on your own schedule.
The 12-Weekend Roadmap
Three progressive phases. Every weekend pairs a live systems build with a Sev-1 Cold Case investigation.
Phase 1 · Build & Ship from Zero (Weekends 1–4)
Multi-AZ VPC topologies, zero-downtime rolling deployments, immutable SHA release pipelines, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation with PromQL error budget calculations. You architect the solution against production specifications.
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WEEKEND 01Paired: CC-01Foundation from Zero & Multi-AZ InfrastructureTerraform core, multi-AZ VPC topologies, private data subnets, PostgreSQL 16, Redis 7, RabbitMQ 3.13 cluster, IAM least privilege traps, S3 state backend with DynamoDB locks.
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WEEKEND 02Paired: CC-08Ship It Without Downtime: Zero 502s Under LoadMulti-stage rootless container builds, Kubernetes readiness/liveness probes, preStop lifecycle hooks, endpoint controller synchronization, and zero-downtime rolling updates.
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WEEKEND 03Paired: CC-04The Immutable Production Pipeline & GitOpsGitHub Actions matrix runners, immutable SHA digest pinning, GitOps pull vs push deployments, supply-chain verification, and automated 3-minute rollbacks.
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WEEKEND 04Paired: CC-10Deep Observability: OpenTelemetry & PromQL TrapsDistributed tracing with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus SLI/SLO instrumentation, error budget calculations, and alerting hygiene (maximum 5 pageable alerts).
Phase 2 · Outage Forensics & Deep Systems Triage (Weekends 5–8)
Complex failure diagnosis in running clusters: kernel-level network saturation, admission controller deadlocks, PostgreSQL lock contention, and point-in-time recovery under operational time limits.
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WEEKEND 05Paired: CC-03The Kubernetes Gauntlet: Injected Cluster Faults6 to 8 timed injected production faults: mutating admission webhook deadlocks, PVC Availability Zone mismatches, NetworkPolicy drop loops, and CoreDNS ndots:5 latency amplification.
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WEEKEND 06Paired: CC-05Below Kubernetes: Linux Kernel & Network InternalsLinux nf_conntrack table exhaustion under high TCP load, file descriptor limits, MTU blackholes, cgroup CFS quota CPU throttling, and zombie socket forensics.
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WEEKEND 07Paired: CC-07The Data Layer: PostgreSQL Locks, Bloat & PITRConnection pool starvation, idle-in-transaction row lock contention, autovacuum freezes, query planner flips under skew, and live Point-In-Time-Recovery (PITR) drills.
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WEEKEND 08Paired: CC-09Reverse Engineering Undocumented Distributed SystemsDropping into an unfamiliar legacy codebase, tracing call graphs across microservices, building an architectural risk register, and writing an executive 90-day stabilization plan.
Phase 3 · Advanced Ownership & Architectural Defense (Weekends 9–12)
Production security governance, executing a 40% cloud cost reduction against live infrastructure, an unannounced disaster recovery Game Day, and a 4-round technical engineering interview simulation evaluated by experienced hiring managers.
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WEEKEND 09Paired: CC-11Cloud Security & Supply Chain PenetrationLeast-privilege Cloud IAM auditing, admission image signature verification (Cosign), leaked credential incident drills, service account impersonation forensics, and blast radius mapping.
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WEEKEND 10Paired: CC-12Scale, Saturation & The 40% Cloud Cost ChallengeLoad testing to system collapse with Locust/k6, HPA + KEDA event-driven autoscaling, and executing a mandatory 40% cloud infrastructure bill reduction challenge without breaching SLOs.
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WEEKEND 11Paired: CC-14Simulated Game Day: Live Incident Command & DRUnannounced live multi-AZ failure injection. Running incident command on a clock, publishing real-time public status updates, executing automated failovers, and writing blameless postmortems.
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WEEKEND 12Paired: CC-02/13The Production Technical Interview SimulationCohort-wide 4-round live mock interview loop evaluated by experienced hiring managers: Distributed System Design (45m), Live Incident Debugging (30m), Kolo Architecture Deep Dive (30m), and Behavioral STAR leadership stories (30m) across scheduled interview rounds.
14 Production Outages Rebuilt from Post-Mortems
Every cold case is drawn from real-world distributed systems failures.
BuildKit cache mount permission traps. Intermittent 502 bad gateways under ingress burst. Unreviewed Terraform state drift. CoreDNS ndots:5 query amplification. PostgreSQL lock contention masquerading as network timeouts. Argo CD mutating webhook reconciliation loops. Go CFS quota throttling appearing as memory leaks. Each weekend brings a distinct operational investigation with no pre-packaged answer key.
Transparent Pricing
Pay in full to save, or spread the cost across the program with monthly installments.
- ✓ All 3 Months Unlocked immediately
- ✓ Full access to all 14 Cold Cases
- ✓ All 12 live architecture workshops
- ✓ 12 Automated Architecture & AI Oral Defense Verifications
- ✓ Permanent recording archive in Kolo Platform
- ✓ Verified Evidence Dossier & public transcript
- ✓ 1 Full Year Free Career Layer ($100 value)
- ✓ Unlimited on-demand AI Technical Interviewer practice
- ✓ Automated DevOps & Cloud Job Board Scanner
- ✓ Direct hiring referrals to partner engineering teams
- ✓ Pay as you learn (Month 1 unlocked now)
- ✓ Weekends 1-4 workshops & 5 Cold Cases
- ✓ Live code triage & oral defense reviews
- ✓ Upgrade to Month 2 & 3 anytime
- ✓ Same expert instructors & reviews
- ✓ 1 Full Year Free Career Layer ($100 value)
- ✓ AI Technical Interviewer & Job Board Scanner
Have questions before enrolling?
Whether you need corporate invoicing for employer sponsorship, technical prerequisite evaluation, or split payment scheduling, our admissions team is here to assist. Email us directly at info@alamztech.com — we typically respond within 2–4 hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the intensive, expectations, and admissions.
I work full-time. What is the expected weekly time commitment and schedule?
The program is engineered specifically for working engineers. Live sessions occur twice weekly: Friday 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM (UTC+1) for the live architecture presentation and challenge kickoff, and Saturday 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (UTC+1) for interactive AMA and technical office hours. Systems implementation, cold case triage, ADR verification, and AI oral defense question drills are 100% self-paced and automated on the web platform—there are zero mandatory Sunday calls. Plan for approximately 5–7 focused hours total across each weekend.
What happens if I miss a live session?
All live Friday presentations and Saturday AMA sessions are recorded in full HD and published to your Kolo Platform dashboard within 3 hours alongside transcripts. Because architecture evaluation and AI oral defense drills run asynchronously on the web portal, you never fall behind if you miss a live session.
What technical prerequisites are required?
This program is designed for engineers who already have baseline familiarity with the Linux command line, containers (Docker), core cloud services, and Git. We do not spend time covering basic CLI syntax or beginner concepts; instead, we dive directly into production topology design, failure modes, cluster orchestration, telemetry, and high availability. If you are starting from zero, we recommend completing our free Telegram tracks first.
Why are there no multiple-choice quizzes?
Advanced systems engineering cannot be evaluated with multiple-choice questions. In production, diagnosing a distributed outage or designing an immutable pipeline requires open-ended synthesis, telemetry interpretation, and debugging under ambiguity. Your work is validated deterministically against real running infrastructure and evaluated by experienced engineers.
What is the engineering dossier and why is it more valuable than a certificate?
While certificates confirm course completion, hiring managers at top engineering organizations evaluate demonstrable systems judgment. Your engineering dossier contains your actual architectural decisions, infrastructure code, telemetry dashboards, and incident remediation commits—providing verifiable, auditable proof of your capabilities during technical interviews.
Can my employer sponsor or reimburse my enrollment?
Yes. Many candidates use company professional development, training, or education budgets to cover tuition. We provide formal corporate invoices, vendor details, and completion certificates for expense reimbursement. Email info@alamztech.com with your company's billing requirements, and we will issue an invoice within one business day.
Is the Career Layer, AI Interviewer, and Job Board included?
Yes. Cohort tuition includes 1 full year of access to our complete Career Advisory Layer ($100/year value) 100% free. This gives you unlimited on-demand practice with our AI Technical Interviewer (System Design and incident mock rounds), access to the automated DevOps & Cloud Job Board Scanner, resume architecture audits, and direct partner hiring introductions.
How do I know if this training is the right fit for my background?
If you have completed our free training path, or have baseline Linux and container fundamentals and want to master production-grade SRE and Cloud Platform engineering, this advanced training is the natural next step. Whether you are transitioning from our free curriculum, software development, QA, or IT administration, it bridges the gap to real-world production ownership. If you would like an honest assessment of whether your current skillset matches the cohort curriculum, email your resume or LinkedIn profile to info@alamztech.com for candid feedback before enrolling.