Hands-on labs
Every concept lands in a working environment you can break, inspect, and rebuild.
TRAINING AREAS
Five domains, deeply connected
Explore the core SDN Academy training areas and find the right course for your team or your own next step.
Site Reliability Engineering
SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and reliable rollout patterns for modern platforms.
Reliability Testing
Chaos engineering, continuous verification, and production-grade testing strategies.
AI for DevOps
Applying LLMs and ML to platform engineering, observability, and on-call workflows.
MLOps
Operating ML systems in production — training, serving, monitoring, and governance.
Data Engineering
Modern data platforms, streaming pipelines, and the architecture behind analytics and AI.
Why SDN Academy
Training built by engineers who ship production systems
Every course is written and taught by senior practitioners who have operated the platforms we teach.
- Practitioner-led sessions grounded in real production incidents
- Hands-on labs using the tools your team already runs
- Modular curriculum — combine topics to fit your roadmap
- Outcome-focused: architectural decisions, not tool trivia
- On-site, remote, or hybrid delivery for distributed teams
Choose your path
For your Team
Private cohorts tuned to your stack, timelines, and architectural goals. Delivered on-site or remote across Europe.
Private cohort of 6–20 engineers
Customized to your platform and tooling
Pre- and post-assessments per participant
On-site, remote, or hybrid delivery
For Individuals
Join an open bootcamp alongside peers from other companies. Ideal for senior engineers and architects investing in their own growth.
Mixed cohort with cross-industry peers
Certificate of completion
Live labs with direct instructor feedback
Alumni network across Europe
Led by Swiss Digital Network, with selected technology partners.
HOW WE TEACH
A format designed for senior engineers
Four commitments that shape every course, from half-day workshops to multi-week bootcamps.
Practitioner instructors
Taught by engineers operating the systems we teach — not full-time trainers.
Modular curriculum
Combine modules across areas to match your team's actual roadmap.
Outcome-focused
Decisions, trade-offs, and architectural reasoning — not tool trivia.
INSTRUCTORS
Learn from practitioners and experts
Our lead instructors run production systems at scale and bring their current architectural work directly into the classroom.
Imen Bakir
Lead Instructor - Reliability Testing
Reliability-focused engineer working across testing, fault injection, observability, and continuous verification. She leads the Reliability Testing & Continuous Verification course with a strong emphasis on practical quality gates and cloud-native reliability workflows.
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We partner with senior practitioners across Europe to co-develop and deliver courses.