IT Professional - Cloud & DevOps Engineering
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Your next step in your IT career
12 or 24 weeks · For beginners & advanced learners · 100% online · Fully funded with an education voucher
Start your career in IT or develop your existing skills further.
In the IT Professional program, you gain hands-on training for modern roles in Cloud & DevOps – tailored to your prior knowledge.
👉 Personal support, small learning groups, and internationally recognized certifications included.
12 or 24 weeks
Flexible start dates
Online
Flexible from home
Personal support in small learning groups
Our course
The digital world of work offers a wide range of career opportunities—especially in the cloud and DevOps environment, where technical understanding and systems thinking are essential.
The IT Professional program provides hands-on training for modern IT roles with a focus on Cloud & DevOps and is suitable both for beginners and for upskilling.
📅 12 weeks: Compact focus on IT fundamentals or selected advanced topics
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📅 24 weeks: Comprehensive program with in-depth practical experience and certifications
You can obtain internationally recognized certifications.
Even after the official end of the course, our coaches continue to support you—for example, with career guidance or your own IT projects.
This is what makes Codingschule special
Individual support:
Personal guidance from experienced trainers — whether in an online or in-person course.
Practical & career-oriented:
You’ll gain skills that you can apply directly in the professional world.
Job-ready skills: You’ll learn how to apply solid knowledge in real-world situations.
Learning in a small group: A maximum of 12 participants to ensure individual support.
Flexible Learning: Coaching-based support with in-depth content—tailored to individual pace and learning goals.
Course content
Cloud Computing
You will learn how IT resources are provisioned through cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, and how to efficiently use, manage, and secure cloud services.
Linux
You develop a solid understanding of Linux fundamentals and learn how to securely use and configure IT systems. The focus is on practical foundations for modern IT and cloud environments.
Networking &
Security
Understand how computers communicate with each other and how to protect IT systems. You’ll learn the fundamentals of networking and IT security.
DevOps & Platform
Using Git, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes, you automate and operate modern cloud infrastructures and work hands-on with DevOps methodologies.
Coding
Automating tasks? No problem with Python!
You will develop advanced Python skills and use them for automation, structured problem-solving, and working with AI (GPT).
Team work & Soft Skills Training
Learn how teams collaborate flexibly and strengthen your communication and teamwork skills. Plan how to distribute tasks most eifficiently.
Artificial Intelligence
You understand the fundamentals of AI and learn how AI tools like ChatGPT can be used in cloud environments to automate and support IT processes.
Web & Databases
You learn how modern full-stack applications are structured, how data is stored and processed efficiently, and you build your own web applications while working hands-on with databases.
Career Coaching & Project Development
Prepare for your career entry and apply your knowledge in your own projects. We’ll support you with job applications and career planning.
With us, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) – for example, ChatGPT – is a given. You’ll use it as a tool to solve problems, write code, or plan projects.
But the most important thing is that you truly understand the course content. You’ll learn how to use AI wisely, recognize its limitations, and critically assess its suggestions instead of simply accepting them.
Our graduates work at
Here’s what the course participants say:
Success story: From Codingschule participant to Business Analyst
This is Yevhen's story: After completing the Cloud Professional course, he now works as a Business Analyst at a large international IT company in Düsseldorf. He invited the participants of our latest course to his company and gave us an overview of his work:
Meet your Trainer
Olaf
„Through modern, AI-supported learning, we can train more effectively and individually today than ever before. In the highly dynamic IT environment, I therefore see myself more as a coach who personally accompanies participants on their journey. I use my many years of experience to create a clear and structured guiding thread that provides orientation. My task is to address different learning types, identify individual knowledge gaps, and cultivate new perspectives and ways of thinking. Our shared goal is always sustainable professional transformation based on a deep, action-oriented understanding of the subject matter.“
Olaf Maywald, Senior trainer for the Professional courses at Codingschule
Sandra
„As someone who changed careers into IT, I know exactly how unsettling it can be when your current job no longer offers prospects. But at the same moment a chance appears: you decide to take the first step. And you’ll be surprised how many new paths open up when you stay curious. Digitalisation offers huge opportunities — it’s no coincidence that today one in four people in IT is a career changer. There’s room for you too. If you’d like, we can look together at how your personal path could work, step by step.“
Sandra Krüger, trainer for the Professional courses at Codingschule
How you'll benefit from the course
The course is designed for individuals seeking to enter the IT field, including through business-relevant interface roles, as well as for IT professionals who want to update their existing knowledge with in-demand Cloud and DevOps skills.
You will acquire practical competencies in cloud technologies, DevOps, automation, Linux, and Python that are currently in high demand. Your qualifications can be validated through internationally recognized certifications.
The course improves your employment prospects by enabling entry into modern IT and IT-related roles or by providing market-oriented upskilling for existing IT profiles.
Certifications you can earn during the course
As part of the 24‑week course track, you can receive up to six exam vouchers to obtain certifications such as:
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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner / AZ‑900 Azure Fundamentals
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AWS Certified AI Practitioner / AI‑900 Azure AI Fundamentals
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
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LPI Linux Essentials or Linux LPIC‑1
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Terraform Associate
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Python PCEP or Python PCAP
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Docker Certified Associate
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Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Requirement: Exam vouchers are granted based on strong performance in qualifying assessments. A maximum of one voucher is issued per certification.
👉 The 12‑week course track includes one certification.
The path to your tech career
Times and dates
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English language skills required – additional German skills are beneficial but optional
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Part-time option available
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Free of charge with an education voucher (Bildungsgutschein) from the Employment Agency or Jobcenter
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Alternatively: Accompanying coaching available for self-paying participants
