This intermediate-level course equips IT professionals with practical skills to manage cloud operations, monitoring, security, and compliance in hybrid and multicloud environments. You will explore foundational operations concepts, including Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, Service-Level Indicators (SLIs), Service-Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets. You'll also apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automated deployments and recovery strategies, and design effective monitoring and observability systems using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch.

In addition, you will configure identity and access management (IAM), implement encryption and zero trust principles, and align architectures with compliance frameworks, including System and Organization Controls 2 (SOC 2), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The course concludes with a final project where you integrate operations, monitoring, and security strategies into a cohesive, job-ready design for hybrid cloud systems.