Insight launches the DevOps Engineering Fellows Program
Today we’re launching the Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows Program, which will focus on scaling and empowering top engineering and data teams.
With 1400+ Insight Fellows working at over 400 companies, our alumni have worked with the best engineering and data teams in the industry. The experience of our Fellows is clear: the best teams in the world don’t just focus on building software, but also constructing the systems to help them deploy and maintain that software more efficiently. As a result, some of Insight’s best engineering Fellows are joining (and leading) top DevOps and SRE teams, with a focus on building platforms, tools and infrastructure to help software engineers and data scientists maximize their output.
The Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows Program is targeted at engineers who want to transition to a high-growth career in the broad field of DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure, and Data Platforms. The Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows Program is a free, 7-week, full-time, in-person program based in Silicon Valley where Insight Fellows will meet with the leaders in the DevOps community. They will build cutting-edge projects reflective of the work being done on the best teams, and meet heads of SRE and DevOps teams who will ultimately hire out of the session.
We’ll have industry mentors and hiring managers from engineering teams at top companies like Stripe, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google — as well as high-growth startups including Nextdoor, Bosch Autonomous Driving, Opendoor and Clover Health. Additionally, Fellows will receive feedback and advice throughout the program from Insight alums who are working on SRE, DevOps, and Data Infrastructure teams including LinkedIn, Netflix, Google, Apple, Stitch Fix, Capital One Labs, Blue Apron, Yelp, and Domino Data Labs.
The program is designed for engineers with a passion for automation and increasing engineering productivity, who love building out and deploying the latest cutting-edge open source tools, and prioritize solving the biggest pain points for engineering teams working on the most critical web and data infrastructure. Fellows will join a diverse cohort that has a strong background in software development, systems engineering, operations, as well as electrical and computer engineering with a focus on networking and security. No specific educational background or credential is required — if you have experience writing code and engineering sophisticated systems, you should apply to the program.
The selected Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows will deploy the latest cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Fellows will learn the cutting-edge operational technologies including:
- Package Management and Provisioning: Packer, Terraform
- Continuous Integration and Deployment: Jenkins, TravisCI, CircleCI
- Containers/Orchestration: Docker, Cgroups, Unikernal
- Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef and Ansible
- Scheduling and Orchestration: Airflow, Kubernetes
- Monitoring and Observability: Honeycomb, Prometheus, New Relic
- Log Aggregation: LogDNA, the ELK stack, Sumo Logic
Most importantly, you’ll learn when and why to use these tools to make sure your engineering team has scalable, reliable systems driven by a strong DevOps culture.
As with all our Fellows Program, the DevOps Fellows will not just learn about DevOps, but will learn by building. You will join a community of top data and AI engineers, data scientists, and product managers that parallels the role you’ll experience in the industry, with the other Insight Fellows being the engineering and data team you’re supporting. As a result, you won’t sit through lectures or talks — you will be be building and maintaining world-class infrastructure in a real-world setting, gaining the experience you need and building evidence for top teams that shows you will thrive in the field of DevOps, SRE or platform engineering.
The first session of the Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows Program will run in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto, CA) starting on July 23, 2018. The 7-week, free program will involve building cutting edge DevOps infrastructure while meeting top teams who you will interview with immediately after the program, transitioning into the field after completion of the fellowship.
Applications for the Insight DevOps Engineering Fellows Program are now open (application deadline is Monday, May 21st) — find out more at Insight DevOps Engineering and apply today.
