Phase 1, Administrator Track, Week 1 of 8, in progress
Career Roadmap
This page is the plan. The CV is only ever what is already true. Ambition is allowed to live honestly here instead.
Systems Administrator
Today
Hybrid Cloud Administrator
End of Week 8
Cloud and Security Consultant
Mid Phase 2
Cloud or Hybrid Architect
End of Phase 2
Phase 1, eight weeks
Administrator Track
Monday to Friday, 8 hours a day. Saturday and Sunday fully off. Certifications: AZ-104, SC-300, SC-500.
Week 1Azure foundation and Entra IDIn progress
Week 2Azure networking, hub and spoke design, VPN, Bastion
Week 3Azure storage, Azure compute, and Windows Server 2025
Week 4Active Directory and hybrid identity through Entra Connect
Week 5Microsoft 365 and Intune
Week 6Security, Sentinel, and NIS2, DORA, GDPR, ISO 27001
Week 7PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and Bicep
Week 8Backup, disaster recovery, Check Point and FortiGate, capstone exams
Phase 2, three to four months
Architect Track
Continues alongside job applications, not after them. Certifications: AZ-305, SC-100.
Month 1Azure solution design, landing zones, Terraform
Month 2Security and resilience, zero trust architecture
Month 3Hybrid enterprise architecture, multi site integration
Month 4Enterprise capstone, full documentation package
Every phase above is built inside Project Polaris, documented weekly at infra.vestlux.com. This roadmap updates as milestones are actually reached. It is a plan, not a claim.