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CL-501 Cloud & Platform

L2 MultiCloud Engineer — Flagship Capstone Program

Our flagship platform-engineering journey: 70 hours theory, 130 hours labs across networking, identity and security, container platforms, observability, FinOps and AI infrastructure — while one real multi-cloud platform is built live across all 25 days, with VPN+BGP, GitOps healing, DNS failover and a graded 5× load storm. Certified via 10 rotating capstone briefs on a fixed 120-point rubric with live demo stations.

B5Advanced
5modules
35skill atoms
5role journeys
Curriculum

What this course covers.

5 modules, 35 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.

1Week 1: Multi-Cloud Networking7 skill atoms
TGW hub-spokevWAN+Firewallcross-cloud VPN/BGPglobal DNSroute segmentation across accountscentralized inspection & egressMSS clamping on cross-cloud tunnels
2Week 2: Identity & Security7 skill atoms
IAM boundariesfederation/OIDCCSPMGuardDuty responsesecretsworkload identity to podsrotation without downtime
3Week 3: Container Platforms7 skill atoms
EKS/AKS/OpenShiftArgoCDGatekeeperKarpenterSCC vs PodSecurity portabilityself-heal after a hostile editspot pools with disruption budgets
4Week 4: Observability, FinOps & AI Infra7 skill atoms
OTelGrafanak6cost enginevLLM+LiteLLM+semantic cacheSLO burn-rate alerts with runbooksunit cost per request
5Week 5: Capstone7 skill atoms
rotating briefdaily artifact gates6 demo stationsviva120-point rubric defensegraded 5× load storm evidencetimed cross-cloud failover drill
Where it fits

CL-501 in the role journeys.

This course appears in 5 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.

Cloud Engineer

Capstone stage
CL-202CL-501journey complete

Platform / DevOps Engineer

Capstone stage
CL-323CL-501journey complete

Cloud Network Engineer

Capstone stage
CL-401CL-501journey complete

Multi-Cloud Engineer

Capstone stage
CL-314CL-501journey complete

Data Engineer

Capstone stage
CL-222CL-501journey complete

Roles this course serves

The capability ladder

This course is authored to band B5.

Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.

What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand

Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.

What the learner can doTypical evidence
B1
AwareUnderstands concepts and vocabulary; uses tools with guidance
Knowledge checks
B2
FoundationPerforms standard tasks correctly in familiar contexts
Guided labs, autograded exercises
B3
PractitionerDelivers complete pieces of work independently
Scenario labs, proctored hands-on exams
B4
ProfessionalHandles production-grade complexity, trade-offs and failure modes
Break-fix drills, design defenses
B5
AdvancedEngineers systems end-to-end under constraints; leads others
Rubric-scored capstones, vivas
B6
ExpertSets direction; recognised authority across teams
Portfolio + panel evaluation

A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.

Next step

Run CL-501 for your team.

This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.

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