Built for DevOps teams who deliver at speed.
Firebrand prepares engineering teams to build, automate, and run modern delivery pipelines with confidence. Designed to create capability that strengthens automation discipline, improves deployment reliability, and enables true-development operations flow, our accelerated, expert-led training builds capability that shows up in real environments.
The confident choice for leading DevOps teams.
Training routes for every DevOps professional
Every organisation approaches training differently. That's why we train your teams in the way that fits them best, with the same expert instructors, hands-on practice, and guaranteed outcomes.
Instructor-led learning (Online Live or in-person)
Expert-led training delivered live online or in-person in a classroom setting, with real-time guidance, hands-on labs, and structured progression. Ideal for professionals and teams who need flexible online learning or prefer classroom-based environments. Same expert instructors. Same depth. Same proven outcomes.
Fast-Track Bootcamps (Residential)
Fast-Track Bootcamps are Firebrand's unique accelerated learning model, designed to help teams and professionals gain validated, deployment-ready expertise in significantly less time than traditional training. Residential bootcamps provide a focused, distraction-free environment that dramatically reduces time-to-competency and offers the fastest route to certification, with on-site testing included.
Bespoke enterprise training
Custom-designed programmes shaped around your environment, technology ecosystems, and organisational priorities. Blending tailored pathways, practitioner insights and guaranteed outcomes, our bespoke programmes minimise disruption while accelerating capability development.
Online Self-Paced
Flexible, on-demand learning designed to fit around busy schedules, with courses available anytime, anywhere, allowing self-paced progression. Ideal for self-motivated learners who want the freedom to build in-demand skills independently, supported by resources that enable a structured, reliable path to certification.
Confidence in training excellence
Building DevOps capability depends on proven outcomes. Choose a training partner recognised and awarded by the global authorities that shape DevOps and cloud-native standards.
;;;What sets Firebrand apart
Co-created with industry experts
Our curriculum is shaped by DevOps practitioners, cloud engineering leaders, and BCS, Microsoft, AWS and CNCF frameworks, ensuring it reflects the real pipeline, automation and platform engineering demands of modern organisations.
Delivered by DevOps practitioners
Practitioner-instructors bring deep expertise across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, Kubernetes, cloud-native application delivery, and release automation.
Vendor-backed certification depth and pathways
Aligned to Microsoft Azure, AWS, CNCF and BCS ecosystems with structured pathways that validate capability across the full DevOps engineering stack. From foundation to expert level.
Real-world capability
Hands-on pipeline labs, live Kubernetes environments, container orchestration exercises and real deployment scenarios ensure learners build genuine operational capability, not just exam awareness.
Bespoke enterprise solutions
Training aligned to your toolchain, CI/CD pipeline maturity, cloud platform, and engineering team structure, designed through expert consultation. .
Certification guarantee
If a learner doesn't pass first time, they can repeat the course at no additional training cost.
Building organisation-wide capability
Your strategic partner for skills
Firebrand is part of the Lyceum Education Group, a unified ecosystem that builds capability across every role, level, and stage of organisational maturity.
From foundational literacy to advanced engineering expertise, the Group provides a connected learning pipeline through apprenticeships, professional development, certifications and specialist programmes delivered by BPP, Firebrand, Estio, and DMI.
;Where your organisation needs DevOps capability support
Slow, inconsistent release cycles undermine delivery confidence
Firebrand builds the CI/CD and automation capability that enables teams to deploy faster, more frequently and with greater reliability. Cutting time-to-market and reducing release risk.
Toolchain complexity creates capability fragmentation across dev and ops teams
Firebrand's vendor-aligned pathways across Azure DevOps, AWS and Kubernetes provide a coherent, structured approach to building end-to-end DevOps capability across your engineering teams.
Gaps between DevOps theory and real pipeline performance
Firebrand's Lecture-Lab-Review model builds applied capability through live pipeline labs, real cloud environments and expert feedback, ensuring engineers build instinct and job-ready confidence, not just conceptual understanding.
High-stakes certification demands outcomes you can trust
Our Certification Guarantee means that if learners miss, we retrain them for free.
Explore top DevOps courses
Our most in-demand programmes designed to build practical, in-role capability.
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Duration: 3 days
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Duration: 4 days
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Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
Duration: 3 days
Learn MoreWhat our customers say
Hear from some of the people behind our 97% satisfaction score.
“The depth of technical knowledge I gained and the way it was structured around real-world engineering practice made the whole experience genuinely valuable.”
Jack
“Firebrand's training is fast and immersive — by the end of the course you genuinely feel ready to apply what you have learned in a real environment.”
Leon Henery
“Firebrand has continuously taken care of our learners' needs, from the preparation to the completion of the exam. We are ready to bring advanced knowledge in cloud technologies to future projects.”
Pexon
Consulting Manager, Enterprise Client
“The depth of technical knowledge I gained and the way it was structured around real-world engineering practice made the whole experience genuinely valuable.”
Jack
“Firebrand's training is fast and immersive — by the end of the course you genuinely feel ready to apply what you have learned in a real environment.”
Leon Henery
FAQs
Firebrand builds capability for the real world, not just classroom theory. Our accelerated, instructor-led training model focuses on practical application, hands-on labs and scenarios shaped around the pressures DevOps professionals face every day. Organisations choose Firebrand because we deliver measurable outcomes fast — higher pass rates, training that fits operational demands, and a 97% satisfaction score.
Yes. Firebrand designs bespoke, organisation-specific capability pathways aligned to your industry, technology ecosystems and requirements. These customised programmes are built around your roles, risks and environment, ensuring capability is developed exactly where it matters most.
Most Firebrand courses include our Certification Guarantee. If a learner doesn't pass on their first attempt, they can retrain on the same course for free, with no additional training cost. They can return as many times as needed within 12 months, paying only for exam fees, accommodation and incidental expenses.
Firebrand's Lecture-Lab-Review model is our accelerated learning framework designed to turn knowledge into reliable, in-role performance. Learners move between focused instruction, hands-on labs and structured review sessions, reinforcing skills through practice, feedback and repetition. It's one of the reasons Firebrand courses achieve deeper learning outcomes in significantly less time.
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