Scaling DevOps Talent in a Large Enterprise
summary
CSRA runs three concrete programs to grow DevOps skills: a 12‑week cohort for team leads (started with eight cross‑pollinated teams, ~75 ongoing leaders) that mandates one hour homework and discussion weekly and creates a persistent chatter community; practitioner training that culminates in a 2‑day hackathon with 10 weeks of prep (scored challenges, security exercises, UX engineer built an Azure SQL server in 10 minutes); and university partnerships feeding a 600‑person center and a DevOps degree using GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus. Outcomes: peer adoption, sandboxes auto‑destroying after two hours, a chatbot to spin up servers, and executive recognition growing certified names from 14 to ~350.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Scaling DevOps talent
- 1:51Recruiting from college
- 4:34Teams
- 11:22Practice
- 14:58Cyber Storm
- 15:58Louisiana Center
- 19:45The Secret
- 24:20A Comprehensive Program
- 26:45The Biggest Challenge
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