DevOps Mentorship Program
Join the mentorship program to kickstart or step up your DevOps career in the Cloud Native era following the Agile MVP style! The mentorship is based on the Dynamic DevOps Roadmap for DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
Meet The Mentors
Abdalaziz Mohamed
Principle DevOps Engineer, Germany
Bringing Lean thinking and automation together with advanced technologies, practices, tools, and DevOps transformation accelerates business results.
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid, Community (~6 hours/month)
Ahmad Aabed
SRE Engineering Manager, Egypt
Ex-CTO, Design and Architecture, helping engineering teams having good experience while shipping products that adds value to the business.
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Community (~6 hours/month)
Ahmed AbouZaid
Tech Lead DevOps Engineer, Germany
Tech Lead with Agility | M.Sc. in Data | Cloud-Native at Core | DevOps Transformation Advisor and Mentor | I enjoy helping businesses and individuals!
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Community (~4 hours/month)
Alexander Babochkin
DevOps Engineer, Thailand
Support and development of existing infrastructure. Work with monitoring (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki). Made Kubernetes backup operator written in Golang.
Languages: EN, RU
Mentorship: Paid (~7 hours/month)
Mohamed Amr
Senior DevOps Engineer, Egypt
A seasoned background in automating CI/CD pipelines and deploying robust cloud infrastructures.
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid, Community (~4 hours/month)
Mohamed Radwan
Senior Cloud Architect, Germany
Sr. Multi-Cloud Architect | 5x AWS Certified | GCP PCA | AWS Community Builder
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Community (~4 hours/month)
Adnan Alshar
Development Platform Engineer, Netherlands
Experienced in diverse international environments across start-ups, consultancy, e-commerce, and finance.
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid, Community (~10 hours/month)
Haitham Gadelrab
DevOps Engineer, Germany
DevOps Engineer | Cloud-Native Engineer | AWS Kubernetes | CI/CD | ARGO | Terraform | SaltStack | Ansible
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid, Community (~6 hours/month)
Ibrahim Abdel-Khaleq
DevOps Lead, Egypt
Empowering Organizations Through DevOps Excellence & Cloud Native Innovation | DevSecOps Lead | Mentor
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid (~6 hours/month)
Mohamed Saraya
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Germany
A dynamic and resourceful Senior SRE with 10+ years of experience across diverse systems.
Languages: AR, EN
Mentorship: Paid, Community (~6 hours/month)
Mentorship request:
Mentorship Setup
Each mentor has full control over the mentorship setup, but it's suggested that one of the following setups be used.
1 on 1
A personalized mentorship experience where the mentor provides focusd guidance tailored to the mentee's specific goals and challenges.
Group up to 5
A small group setting that fosters collaboration while allowing each participant to receive individualized attention and engage in meaningful discussions.
Group up to 10
A medium group format that encourages peer learning and diverse perspectives, ideal for mentees in the same level with common challenges.
Mentorship Timeline
The mentroship happens across 8 sprints, each sprint is 2 weeks (16 weeks in total). You will have 16 hours sync live calls, and 16 hours async interactions during the sprint, like code reviews.
Remember!
Mentorship is not a course! There is no spoon-feeding here! You have to put in a significant effort and devote a significant amount of time each week during the whole mentorship!
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Introduction and Kick-off
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Learning Strategy, DevOps Topology, DevOps Skills.
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Topics: Your entry point for the mentorship! We will have an overview of the menthorship timeline, how the setup will look, and a learning plan.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Welcome to the DevOps World
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Software Production (50%), DevOps Methodology (50%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: An introduction to the DevOps paradigm and the focus areas. The relationship between DevOps, DevSecOps, and Agile in light of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Basics - DevOps Core
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Code (40%), Operating System (40%), Containers (20%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: Python fundamentals, common development tools, Git basics, Linux essentials, common system tools, Bash scripting skills, and Docker fundamentals.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Start - Laying the Base
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Planning (12.5%), Code (37.5%), Containers (12.5%), Continuous Integration (37.5%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: Planning, prioritize requirements, code modularity, testing and quality assurance, unit tests, Docker best practices, quality gates in continuous integration with GitHub Actions.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Expand - Constructing a Shell
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Planning (12.5%), Code (25%), Containers (12.5%), Observability (12.5%), Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (25%), Infrastructure (12.5%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: Review plans, Twelve-Factor App methodology, REST API best practices, Kubernetes for container orchestration, observability, continuous delivery, overview of Cloud Computing.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Transform - Finishing the Structure
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Planning (12.5%), Code (25%), Infrastructure (25%), Containers (12.5%), Observability (12.5%), Continuous Delivery (12.5%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: Review goals, integrate code with external systems, integration tests, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform essentials, Kubernetes configuration management, Helm, Kustomize, CD best practices.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Optimize - Keep Improving
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Planning (12.5%), Code (12.5%), Infrastructure (12.5%), Containers (12.5%), Continuous Integration (12.5%), Continuous Delivery (12.5%), and Continuous Deployment (25%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: Agile retrospective, optimize code performance, software supply chain security, multi-environment architecture, log aggregation system, end-to-end release automation, continuous deployment with GitOps and Argo CD.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
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Next Steps
Sprint:
- Total duration: 2 weeks
- Focus: Code (40%), Operating System (40%), Containers (20%)
Live Call:
- Duration: 2 hours
- Stand up: Review your progress in the previous sprint.
- Topics: It's time to face the real world and prepare for the next steps. We will cover some topics to help you step up and keep developing yourself.
Async:
- Duration: 2 weeks (including 2 hours from the mentor)
- Topics: You will implement the hands-on end-to-end project (HiveBox), and the mentor will review your implementation.
Frequently Asked Questions
No! DevOps Hive just facilitates connecting mentors with mentees. We review the mentor’s profiles on a best-effort basis.
No. To save mentors’ time and avoid spamming, all mentorship requests go through DevOps Hive.
We highly recommend using the MVP-style Dynamic DevOps Roadmap to start a DevOps Engineer career in the Agile way! The mentors customize the roadmap for mentees to meet their needs.
Each mentor decides how they want to work on the mentorship, either Paid, Community, or both. Generally speaking,
Paid mentorship gets priority, offering dedicated time and structured guidance, while Community mentorship is free but depends on mentor availability and may have longer response times.
The years of experience on this page mainly refer to DevOps experience, which is just one of many factors in the mentorship. We encourage you to consider the total number of years of experience, which plays a crucial role in this matter and should not be overlooked.
