Executive Certificate in Platform Strategy, Cloud Governance & DevOps Leadership

DevOps Engineering

Executive Certificate in Platform Strategy, Cloud Governance & DevOps Leadership

Engineering velocity, reliability & cost — lead your platform strategy

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3 WEEKS
Duration
Hybrid
Format
Lagos, Nigeria
Location
Rolling 2025
Intake
EXECUTIVE
Level
Yes
Certificate

What's included

Weekend Mentorship

Live cohort sessions with senior practitioners, every weekend.

Real-World Projects

Build a portfolio with hands-on industry case studies.

Community Access

Join a cohort of peers and the wider Firstlincoln alumni network.

Internship Pathway

Transition from learning into real industry experience through our internship program.

Weekend Mentorship Sessions

More than recorded videos — this is a live cohort.

Our Weekend Mentorship Sessions are live, instructor-led cohorts that run every weekend. Instead of watching pre-recorded lessons in isolation, you join a small group, work through real-world case studies, ask questions in real time, and get direct feedback from senior practitioners actively working in industry.

  • Live Q&A with senior practitioners every weekend
  • Real case-study breakdowns, not just slides
  • Cohort accountability and peer feedback
  • Career guidance, mock interviews and portfolio reviews
Sessions run Virtual or Physical — pick your format when you enrol.

What you'll learn

  • Understand the DevOps value chain and how it directly impacts business velocity
  • Evaluate cloud costs, optimise spend, and hold vendors accountable on infrastructure
  • Set and govern uptime SLAs and reliability standards in vendor and team contracts
  • Understand business continuity planning, disaster recovery, and incident escalation
  • Assess your organisation's security posture in the deployment pipeline
  • Navigate ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance requirements relevant to cloud infrastructure
  • Build, scale, and structure high-performing DevOps and platform engineering teams

Prerequisites

  • Minimum 8 years of professional experience in a management or executive role
  • No technical cloud or DevOps knowledge required
  • Laptop or tablet for workshop simulations
  • Commitment to attend all 3 weekly sessions (3 hours each) plus a final strategy workshop

Who is this programme for?

  • CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and infrastructure directors
  • CEOs and COOs of technology-dependent businesses
  • CISOs and risk officers overseeing cloud security and compliance
  • Procurement and finance executives managing cloud vendor contracts
  • Board members with technology risk oversight responsibilities

Curriculum

3 modules • 15 lessons • 3 WEEKS

  1. MODULE 1 DevOps & Platform Strategy

    Week 1 · 5 lessons
    • What DevOps delivers to the business
    • Platform engineering economics
    • Cloud spend optimisation
    • FinOps: cloud cost governance
    • Build vs buy for infrastructure
    • Uptime, SLAs & reliability obligations
    • Business continuity & disaster recovery
    • Security in the deployment pipeline
    • Compliance: ISO 27001, SOC 2
    • Incident management at scale
    • Building & scaling DevOps teams
    • Platform team models (Spotify, Thoughtworks)
    • Technology roadmap planning
    • Vendor & cloud provider negotiations
    • Executive workshop: Platform strategy sprint

Personalized Roadmap

Start your journey with a learning path customised to your motivation and experience

DevOps & Platform Strategy
1
Reliability & Risk
2
Team & Technology Roadmap
3

Assessment & Certification

Assessment
Participation & case studies (40%), Cloud spend audit (30%), Platform strategy brief (30%)
Certification
Firstlincoln Executive Certificate in Platform Strategy & DevOps Leadership
Delivery format
Executive Cohort — 3 evening sessions + final strategy workshop (half-day)

Career outcomes

VP Engineering
CTO
Head of Platform
Infrastructure Director
Chief Information Officer
Internship Pathway

From classroom to a real industry role.

Top performers progress into our Internship Pathway — a structured placement programme of 3, 6 or 12 months. Internships are either sponsorship-backed or guardian-supported, depending on the arrangement that suits the learner.

3 months 6 months 12 months
Learn how the internship pathway works →

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