Career path · Systems Administrator

Systems Administrator

Build practical infrastructure skills through guided lessons, realistic labs on real virtual machines, and evidence-based work.

Starting level
No experience needed
Content time
49 h
lesson time, from the published courses
Courses
13
Lessons
39
Labs
13
on real virtual machines
Certificate
On completion
Ultiblob-issued, verifiable by serial
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A systems administrator working at a crash-cart console between two server racks.

Curriculum

6 stages, in the order the work happens

Stage 1

Foundation

Server roles, the shell, IP networking and safe administration habits.

  1. Foundation courses

    The three environments every administrator works in: a Windows server, a Linux server and the network between them.

Stage 2

Core administration

Operate a domain environment and the virtualisation platform it runs on.

  1. Core administration courses

    Group Policy, patching, delegation and break/fix on a domain; VM lifecycle, storage and networking on the hypervisor.

Stage 3

Automation

Repeatable server setup, Git workflows and multi-node Linux administration with Ansible.

  1. Automation courses

    Stop doing the same change by hand twice.

Stage 4

Security

Secure network boundaries and the analyst's view of what the systems you run are telling you.

  1. Security courses

    Packet flow, defensive tooling, alert triage and log sources.

Stage 5

Production operations

Backups you have actually restored, and recovery exercises you have actually run.

  1. Production operations courses

    Application-aware restores, backup verification and tabletop recovery.

Stage 6

Capstone

Design and harden an infrastructure end to end, with recovery drills, automation, audit evidence and monitoring.

  1. Capstone course

    The expert course ends in a failure drill and capstone exercise on your own lab pod.

Hands-on

Labs on this path

Each of these courses provisions virtual machines for you on the Ultiblob cluster and opens a console in your browser. The topology below is the published blueprint — roles and operating systems only.

Price and enrollment

$49.00

Pilot pricing — final pricing to be confirmed.

  • labs included
  • certificate on completion

Before you decide

What we will not promise

  • A job, a salary, or an employer introduction. We teach and we let you practise; we do not place people.
  • Accreditation. An Ultiblob certificate records what you completed here. It is not an industry certification.
  • Statistics we have not measured. You will not find completion rates, placement rates or student counts on this site until they exist and are audited.

We would rather lose you here than mislead you.

$49.00

pilot price