Trainer — DevOps / DevSecOps / SRE (Part-time, Consulting)

About the role

Teach a cohort of motivated engineers moving into production Cloud + DevOps + DevSecOps + SRE roles. You deliver live sessions (two evenings a week, eight weeks per cohort), review assignments, and hold office hours. Engagement is a consulting retainer — you keep your day job. You'll be working with learners who already know basics and are looking for the production depth that textbook courses miss — chaos scenarios, incident post-mortems, real IaC tradeoffs. If you miss mentoring engineers, this is a way to do it on a structured schedule without quitting your job.

Responsibilities

• Deliver ~16 live sessions per cohort covering CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, cloud security, SRE practices, or your specialism.
• Author hands-on labs and graded assignments that mirror what learners will do on day one of their new role.
• Review learner submissions with qualitative, actionable feedback — not just pass/fail.
• Host weekly office hours and async Q&A in the student forum.
• Collaborate with the VTB curriculum team on syllabus updates as tooling evolves.
• Help shape the VTB technical brand — occasional blog posts or workshop demos welcome, not required.

What we're looking for

• 7–9 years of hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE experience in production environments.
• Strong production fluency with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Prior training, mentoring, or conference-speaking experience — people remember your explanations.
• Excellent spoken English; ability to break down complex systems for mid-career learners.
• Comfort with a part-time engagement — approximately 6 hours per week during an active cohort.
• Current employment is fine; we work around your day job.