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Cloud Infrastructure for Financial Systems

Run financial workloads in the cloud with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, secure networking, observability and tested disaster recovery plans.

  • Duration9 weeks
  • LevelAdvanced
  • Modules9
  • Lessons36
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Cloud Infrastructure for Financial Systems
Proposed fee$1,299USD · 9 weeks

Course overview

Financial platforms need infrastructure that is secure, reproducible and recoverable. This course teaches cloud infrastructure from the ground up for financial and research systems: containers and orchestration, infrastructure as code, identity and network security, managed data services and CI/CD. It closes with resilience engineering, where you plan, run and document a disaster recovery exercise.

  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Cloud security and IAM
  • Managed data services
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Disaster recovery

What you will learn

  • Package and run services with Docker and Kubernetes using sensible resource limits
  • Provision repeatable environments with infrastructure as code and reviewed changes
  • Secure workloads with network segmentation, least-privilege access and encryption
  • Build deployment pipelines with canary releases and rollback strategies
  • Plan and test disaster recovery against defined recovery time and recovery point objectives

Curriculum

9 modules · 36 lessons · 9 weeks. Curriculum preview; the final syllabus may change before enrollment opens.

  • The shared responsibility model
  • Regions, zones and data residency
  • Compute, storage and networking primitives
  • Cost awareness from day one

  • Docker image best practices
  • Kubernetes core concepts
  • Deployments, services and configuration
  • Resource limits and autoscaling

  • Declarative infrastructure principles
  • Reusable modules and environments
  • State management and drift
  • Reviewing infrastructure changes

  • Virtual networks and segmentation
  • Identity and access management
  • Encryption in transit and at rest
  • Secrets and key management

  • Managed relational databases
  • Object storage for historical datasets
  • Backups and point-in-time recovery
  • Data lifecycle policies

  • Build and release pipelines
  • Blue-green and canary deployments
  • Policy checks in pipelines
  • Rollback strategies

  • Metrics, logs and traces
  • Alerting on service-level objectives
  • Capacity planning
  • Failure injection testing

  • Recovery time and recovery point objectives
  • Multi-zone and multi-region designs
  • Runbooks and game days
  • Audit trails and compliance evidence

  • Designing a reference architecture
  • Deploying a research platform stack
  • Cost and security review
  • Capstone presentation

Practical projects

01

Containerize and deploy a FastAPI market data service to Kubernetes with autoscaling

02

Write infrastructure-as-code modules for networking, databases and storage across dev and staging

03

Run a disaster recovery drill and document measured recovery time and recovery point results

Skills you will practice

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • IAM
  • CI/CD
  • Observability

Requirements

Who it's for

  • Backend and platform engineers supporting financial applications
  • DevOps engineers moving into regulated or data-heavy environments
  • Quant developers who deploy their own research infrastructure

Prerequisites

  • Financial Backend & API Architecture or experience building backend services
  • Comfort with Linux command-line tools and Git

Learning format

  • Self-paced lessons with infrastructure walkthroughs
  • Guided labs in sandboxed cloud environments
  • Assignments reviewed against security and cost checklists
  • Capstone deployment with a written runbook

Quantzivo certificates are completion credentials issued by Quantzivo, not accredited qualifications. Courses teach technical and research skills; they do not promise investment returns or provide investment advice.

Frequently asked questions

Self-paced lessons with infrastructure walkthroughs Guided labs in sandboxed cloud environments Assignments reviewed against security and cost checklists

Financial Backend & API Architecture or experience building backend services. See the full list under Requirements.

Yes. Completing the lessons and assessed projects earns a Quantzivo certificate of completion. It is a completion credential issued by Quantzivo, not an accredited qualification.

The $1,299 USD fee is a proposed launch price. Final fees, schedules, refund terms and any regional options are confirmed before any payment is taken.

Quantzivo teaches technical, data and research skills. It does not provide investment advice, trading signals or any promise of returns. Trading involves risk, including loss of capital.
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