Step into the IT world under the mentors’ guidance! Become job-ready and boost your skills with the practical experience of working on open-source project with real challenges.

Why should you choose Devops? It’s where your decisions matter: you’ll deliver tangible business outcomes within your role and create a real business impact. You’ll have a helicopter view over the operations and development, which will provide you with endless opportunities to learn and refine your skills.

Develop your skills, broaden your mind and become the part of our team – we offer internships to the best alumni!

PROJECT LAB ADVANTAGES

3 months of practice to list on your CV

A real project with the real challenges

Developing job-ready skills, both technical and soft one

Mentors’ advice and Tech Leads’ guidance

Remote classes, 10h/week on afternoons – easy to combine with studies

Opportunity to get enrolled to Internship program and become a Trainee after graduating the Project Lab

IT’S A MATCH FOR YOU IF:

you have a good knowledge of one of the most popular programming languages (Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Golang)
you understand the OOP principles (encapsulation, polymorphism, abstraction, inheritance)
you know how to write the automated scripts (BASH, CMD, PowerShell)
you hold experience in programming on Linux or Windows
you are aware of the network technologies (IP addressing, masks, routes, TCP and OSI layers, layered network protocols basics, NAT, PAT, firewall)
you have the experience in dealing with database management systems
your English level is Intermediate and above
you have a permission to work in Poland

PROJECT LAB INFORMATION

PROJECT LAB PROGRAM

Sphere

Description

Processes

Software development processes. Scrum. Jira. Kanban

Service operation basics. ITIL process as a base for Service operation. SLA

Programming. OOP

Java. Code convention. Java OOP. Eclipse, Plugins. Code quality tools

Introduction to architecture and design patterns. MVC. Spring Web MVC framework overview

Testing types, Unit/Integration testing introduction. Test design techniques, overview

Unit testing. Junit. Emma coverage. TestNG. Data provider. Parallel tests running.

Database Management

Installing and configuring databases. User management (privileges and permissions)

Backups. Types, Tools for making backups. Recovery and disaster recovery. Basic monitoring

Tables, relationships, keys, constraints understanding

DDL, DML, DCL understanding

Access to databases. JDBC

ORM. Hibernate. Entity mapping

Continuous Integration

Principles of continuous integration. Automated build concept

Building with build tool (ant, maven, gradle, make, rake, ...)

Continuous integration tools (Jenkins, Travis, TeamCity)

Continuous inspection. Code metrics inro. Tools (SonarQube, SonarCloud)

Continuous Delivery

Continuous delivery intro. CD with CI Tools and plugins, CD Tools (GoCD)

Branching Strategies

Source control, Git basics (GitHub, GitLab)

Branches and tags management strategy

Product Deploying, Software Installation

Packaging, deb/rpm packages structure. Create packages (maven/gradle plugins, fpm, swaddle)

Publishing Web sites

Artifact Management (Sonatype Nexus, Archiva, Docker registry)

ClickOnce Deployment

Virtualization

Types of virtualization (hardware emulation, full virtualization, paravirtualization, operating system-level virtualization)

Hypervisor Classification (Xen, KVM, VMware (ESX/ESXi, Workstation), VirtualBox)

Containers (LXC, Docker)

Orchestration of Containers (Swarm, Kubernetes, Nomand, Mesos)

Automatization

Shell Scripting

Python for administration

Automatization tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, …)

Monitoring

Distributed monitoring (Zabbix, Nagios, Splunk, Prometheus)

Logging (ELK/FLK, Datadog)

Clouding

Understanding services and applications by type

Cloud service models

Cloud computing platforms (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack)

Orcestration (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager templates, Google Cloud Deployment Manager)

UPON FINISHING THIS PROJECT LAB, YOU WILL:

know how to provide professional software products development infrastructure establishment;
maintain and document programs in accordance with software engineering standards;
know how to use the latest operating process automation technologies, connected with software development and deployment processes;
find a satisfactory project for you that will ensure your development;

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE PROJECT LAB?

All you have to do is register and pass 3 steps: online technical test, English check (conversation via zoom with our language teacher) and online interview with expert and recruiter.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR AN INTERVIEW?

The interview is definitely among the most crucial milestones on your journey to SoftServe Academy. Here are a few life hacks on how to prepare for it and what are the deciding points for the recruiters and tech interviewers.

FAQs

1. Can I apply for the internship if my English level is below Intermediate?

Yes, you can try, but we suggest you to use our English materials to boost your level.

2. What can be an asset during the tech interview with the IT recruiter?

Your positions could be improved in case you have your own software developments, the knowledge of cloud computing platforms (Amazon, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, Eucalyptus, CloudStack), understanding of software development processes. Scrum. Jira. Kanban, knowledge of design and architectural patterns, distributed systems, orchestration, microservices, service operation basics, and ITIL process as a base for Service operation.
To brush up your skills and understanding, you might check on Resource library.

3. Do I need to speak English while working on a project?

Our courses are held in both Polish and English. You will be working on an assignment, and you will present its results at regular meetings with SoftServe’s managers and technical leaders, which will be held in English.

4. Do I need to sign an agreement to take part in the course?

We will ask you to sign an application form (a simple document stating that you will be participating in SoftServe Academy) and NDA (non-disclosure agreement that protects all confidential information).

5. Will I get an internship or a job after completing the project within the SoftServe Academy?

We offer internships to the best graduates. Our program is here to help you launch your IT career and show you how it is to work for a technology company. We can tell from experience that the graduates of our courses are doing great on the market!