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3 Years On Campus Bachelors Program
Dundalk Institute of TechnologyThe program blends software engineering with DevOps and platform engineering, and you get practical skills in both development, cloud computing, operating systems as well as networking. It’s ideal for students who enjoy both coding as well as the systems side of IT and who would like to design, deploy and manage applications in a live environment.
Curriculum Structure
The following is what you will learn each year of this three-year Level 7 programme (BSc) at DkIT:
Areas of emphasis (in a string): Software engineering, DevOps practices, cloud platform construction, systems administration, networking
Learning outcomes (as a string): Develop, release and operate modern applications using modern DevOps methods; be a contributing team member of multi‑disciplinary teams; manage cloud infrastructure alongside automation tooling
Professional alignment (accreditation): Graduates are professionally aligned with industry requirements for DevOps and platform engineering careers with hands-on experience with industry-standard tooling (e.g. GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
Reputation (graduate employability rankings): A programme created as a response to locally and internationally-skilled computing graduate shortages; graduates are highly sought after for technical DevOps roles and applications delivery.
Students on this programme receive practical exposure from day one with hands-on labs, group projects, industry software and optional placements. DkIT offers you access to industry-standard computing labs, cloud environments and an IT Learning Centre that help you apply classroom learning with software such as GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes and Terraform. Your learning isn’t theoretical—it’s meant to mimic professional DevOps workflows and infrastructures. That ensures you graduate with both technical skills as well as collaboration skills that employers require.
That would amount to actual learning opportunities as follows:
The graduates graduate ready for roles where operational thinking and strong technical skills are both a prerequisite: think DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Platform or Cloud Engineer, Software Developer and Automation Engineer. Such roles are in high demand from industry as a result of a growing reliance on strong, scalable software delivery pipelines.
Your support ecosystem and outcomes include:
Six Grades at O6 or H7 in Leaving Certificate INCLUDING At least one H5 Grade, OR Minimum Points Score of 200 AND Mathematics Grade F2, O6 or H7 AND English Grade O6 or H7 OR Irish Grade O6 or H7Mathematics at GCSE (Grade A* - C or better) English (or Irish) at GCSE (Grade A* - C or better) One subject at: ‘A Level’ (Grade A* - E or better) Meet the matriculation requirement of 5 different subjects which must include: Mathematics at GCSE (Grade A* - C or better) English (or Irish) at GCSE (Grade A* - C or better) One subject at: ‘A Level’ (Grade A* - E or better)Software DeveloperDevOps EngineerSolutions ArchitectCloud EngineerSite Reliability EngineerDeployment EngineerNetwork EngineerSystem Administrator
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