Protocols and addressing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies layered models, Ethernet, IP, TCP, UDP, and subnetting.
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Infrastructure and operations
Network Engineer
Designs, implements, secures, automates, and troubleshoots enterprise and service-provider networks.
Skill coverage
100%
Course coverage
100%
Skill coverage shows how much of the role's capability map already has a published course. Course coverage shows how much of the mapped course pipeline for this role has shipped.
- Role skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 8
- Relevant courses
- 36
Capability map
Skills
Importance describes how central each capability is to the role. Course coverage shows where you can build the skill in the current OpenSkills catalog.
01
Network foundations
4 capabilities
Switching
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs and operates resilient switched networks.
Routing
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs and operates routing with appropriate protocols and policy.
Network services
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Operates DNS, DHCP, NTP, load balancing, and related services.
02
Network operations
4 capabilities
Network security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies segmentation, filtering, secure access, and traffic inspection.
Traffic management
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Engineers load balancing, content delivery, and global traffic flow.
Network automation
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Manages network configuration and validation through code and APIs.
Troubleshooting
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Diagnoses packet, protocol, path, and service failures.
Course coverage
Learning path
Relevant courses
Core foundations
The concepts this role is built on.
Supporting knowledge
Adjacent knowledge that improves day-to-day judgment.
- Content Delivery Networks
- Denial-of-Service Defense
- DHCP
- DNS Operations and Security
- Global Traffic Management
- HAProxy Fundamentals
- HTTP Fundamentals
- HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
- IPv4
- IPv6
- Load Balancing
- Network Function Virtualization
- Network Time Protocol
- NGINX Reverse Proxy and Load Balancing
- Packet Analysis with Wireshark
- Reverse Proxy Fundamentals
- Software-Defined Networking
- TCP and UDP
- TLS Fundamentals
- Traefik Fundamentals
- Virtual Private Networks
- Wireless Networking
Specializations
Deeper paths for particular environments or directions.
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