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Amazon/AWS DevOps Roadmap
Complete roadmap for Amazon DevOps Engineer roles. Covers AWS services, system design, CI/CD, Leadership Principles, and the Amazon interview loop.
4–8 months prep
6 phases
FoundationIntermediateAdvancedExpert
Phase 1
Leadership Principles (LP)
Amazon interviews are 50% LP stories — start here
Foundation3–4 weeks
What to learn
- Prepare 15–20 STAR stories covering all 16 LPs
- Customer Obsession — always start with the customer
- Ownership — think long-term, never say 'that's not my job'
- Dive Deep — know your metrics, root causes, data
- Bias for Action — calculated risks, speed matters
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
- Deliver Results — focus on outcomes, not activity
Key tools
Amazon LP listSTAR method
Phase 2
AWS Services Deep Dive
Know the services you'll be operating
Intermediate4–6 weeks
What to learn
- EC2, ASG, ELB — compute and scaling fundamentals
- VPC — subnets, security groups, NACLs, peering
- ECS/EKS — container orchestration on AWS
- Lambda — serverless patterns and limitations
- S3, RDS, DynamoDB — storage and databases
- CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray — observability
- IAM — policies, roles, cross-account access
Key tools
AWS ConsoleAWS CLITerraform
Phase 3
CI/CD & Automation
Amazon lives and breathes deployment automation
Intermediate3–4 weeks
What to learn
- CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy — AWS native CI/CD
- GitHub Actions / Jenkins for non-AWS pipelines
- Blue-green and canary deployment strategies
- Infrastructure as Code — CloudFormation or Terraform
- Configuration management — SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager
- Automated testing — unit, integration, load testing in pipelines
Key tools
CodePipelineCodeDeployCloudFormationTerraform
Phase 4
System Design
Design for Amazon-scale distributed systems
Advanced6–8 weeks
What to learn
- Design a deployment pipeline for 1000+ microservices
- Design a monitoring and alerting system
- Design an auto-scaling system
- Design a log aggregation platform
- Operational excellence — runbooks, automation, self-healing
- Cost optimization at scale
- Multi-region architecture and disaster recovery
Key tools
AWS Architecture CenterExcalidraw
Phase 5
Coding (Bar Raiser Round)
LeetCode medium + scripting/automation
Advanced6–8 weeks
What to learn
- LeetCode medium problems — 100+ solved
- Focus: arrays, hashmaps, trees, graphs, DP basics
- Scripting — Python/Bash automation scenarios
- Write clean, production-quality code
- Explain time/space complexity clearly
- Amazon-style: pair programming, think out loud
Key tools
LeetCodePythonBash
Phase 6
Interview Loop Prep
The Amazon loop is unique — prepare specifically
Expert3–4 weeks
What to learn
- Phone screen format — 1 coding + LP questions
- Onsite loop — 4-5 rounds (coding, system design, LP, bar raiser)
- Every round includes LP questions — weave stories naturally
- Bar Raiser round — highest bar, cross-team interviewer
- Ask good questions at the end of each round
- Mock interviews with someone who knows Amazon's format
Key tools
Prampinterviewing.ioAmazon interview guides
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the Amazon/AWS DevOps roadmap
1What is the Amazon DevOps Engineer interview like?
Amazon DevOps interviews include: coding (LeetCode medium), system design (AWS-focused architecture), DevOps-specific (CI/CD, IaC, monitoring), and behavioral (Amazon Leadership Principles — this is critical).
2How important are Amazon Leadership Principles?
Extremely important. Amazon evaluates every candidate against their 16 Leadership Principles. Prepare 2+ STAR stories per principle. Behavioral rounds often determine the hiring decision more than technical rounds.
3What AWS services should I know for Amazon interviews?
Deep knowledge of: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation/CDK, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CloudWatch, Route 53, ALB/NLB, DynamoDB, SQS/SNS, and Secrets Manager.
4What is the Amazon DevOps Engineer salary in 2026?
Amazon SDE/DevOps L5 (entry-senior): $180K–$250K TC, L6 (senior): $280K–$380K TC, L7 (principal): $400K–$550K+ TC. Amazon's TC is heavily RSU-weighted with back-loaded vesting.
5How long should I prepare for Amazon DevOps?
3–5 months is typical. Focus areas: 1 month Leadership Principles + STAR stories, 2 months coding (150+ LeetCode), 1 month system design, and ongoing AWS services deep-dive.