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Researched career roadmaps with sourced salary data, real projects, and curated resources. Every figure cites where it came from.

Why SkillPilot

Researched, Not Guessed

Content is written and maintained by hand, and every market figure carries its source and the date it was checked.

Sourced figures

Salaries and durations must carry a source and a retrieval date. Content missing them fails the build.

Real projects

Every phase includes projects you can build and show, not just topics to read about.

Certification paths

Exam domains and weightings mapped to concrete prep steps.

Free reference material

Every roadmap, certification guide and lesson is public — no account, no card. The courses are the paid product.

Career Paths

Structured Roadmaps

Each path breaks a career into phases with skills, projects and resources. Durations and salary ranges cite their sources.

9 phases15-21 months

DevOps Engineer Roadmap

A structured path from Linux fundamentals through cloud infrastructure, automation, containers, and monitoring to a production-ready DevOps engineering career.

Entry salary
$118,895
Glassdoor DevOps Engineer salary estimate (average, US)
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10 phases8-11 months at 10h/week

Site Reliability Engineer Roadmap

A path from DevOps fundamentals into the specialized discipline of site reliability engineering, covering SLOs, observability, incident response, data reliability, and capacity planning.

Entry salary
$95,000 - $161,000
Glassdoor Site Reliability Engineer salary estimate, up to 1 year experience (US)
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8 phases9-14 months

AI Agents Engineer Roadmap

A path from LLM and programming fundamentals through agent orchestration, tool use, and production deployment for building autonomous AI agent systems.

Entry salary
$101,541
Glassdoor AI Engineer Entry Level salary estimate (average, US)
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10 phases6-8 months at 10h/week

Observability Engineer Roadmap

A path into observability as a craft of its own — wide events, signal correlation, telemetry cost, collector pipelines, high-cardinality analysis, continuous profiling, and running observability as a platform other teams consume.

Entry salary
$135,441
Glassdoor Observability Engineer total pay estimate, 25th percentile (US, 27 salaries submitted)
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10 phases7-9 months at 10h/week

AI Security Engineer Roadmap

A defensive security path for engineers who secure LLM and agent systems, covering AI threat modelling, prompt injection defence, supply chain integrity, agent permissions, guardrails, governance and incident response.

Entry salary
$140,357
Glassdoor Security Engineer salary estimate, 25th percentile (US, n=6,355) — proxy: the AI-specific title has too few reported salaries to publish
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10 phases7-10 months at 10h/week

Network Automation Engineer Roadmap

A path from configuring switches by hand to running a network as code — Python, structured device APIs, Ansible, a source of truth, automated testing, and telemetry that closes the loop.

Entry salary
$105,017
Glassdoor Network Automation Engineer salary, 25th percentile of the US range (93 salaries)
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Certifications

Certification Prep

Official exam domains with their weightings, cost and format, plus a step-by-step prep path for each certification.

The Linux Foundation / CNCF

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

A hands-on, performance-based certification proving you can install, configure, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters from the command line.

ExamCKA
Cost
$445 USD
Linux Foundation Training & Certification — CKA certification pricing page (training.linuxfoundation.org)
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Amazon Web Services

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C03)

The most widely held cloud architecture certification, testing whether you can design secure, resilient, high-performing and cost-optimised solutions on AWS against the Well-Architected Framework.

ExamSAA-C03
Cost
$150 USD
AWS Certification — AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate page (aws.amazon.com/certification)
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HashiCorp

HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate

A multiple-choice certification validating foundational Terraform skills — infrastructure as code concepts, the core workflow, configuration language, modules, and state management.

ExamTA-004
Cost
$70.50 USD plus applicable taxes
HashiCorp Developer — Infrastructure Automation Certification page (developer.hashicorp.com/certifications/infrastructure-automation)
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Microsoft

Microsoft Certified — Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)

The core Azure operations certification, testing whether you can implement, manage and monitor an Azure environment — identity, governance, storage, compute, virtual networking and monitoring.

ExamAZ-104
Cost
Price varies by the country or region in which the exam is proctored — Microsoft publishes the local price at checkout
Microsoft Learn — Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate certification page
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How It Works

From Aspiration to Achievement

Pick a roadmap and work through it phase by phase — every roadmap is free and public.

  1. Search for Your Goal

    Type a role, tool or certification into the search box and see which roadmaps cover it.

    • Search by role, tool or exam
    • Results as you type
    • No account required
  2. Read the Phases

    Each roadmap breaks the career into ordered phases, each with the skills it covers and why it comes where it does.

    • Ordered phases, not a link dump
    • Skills listed per phase
    • Durations cite their source
  3. Follow Your Path

    Get structured phases from basics to advanced, with resources, certifications, and project ideas to guide you.

    • Phase-by-phase guidance
    • Curated resources
    • Progress tracking
  4. Build the Projects

    Every phase names projects you can build and show. Finishing them is what turns a roadmap into a portfolio.

    • Concrete project briefs
    • Something to show at interview
    • Certification prep where it helps

Ready to Start Your Journey?

Browse the roadmaps and start with the one that matches your goal.

Browse Roadmaps

Start with a Path

Read the roadmaps for free, and take a course when you want the guided version. Your progress is saved either way.

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