SEV-1 detected02:47
Cohort 1st Nov
From knowing DevOps toolsto being trusted with production.
A 60-day live program built around your full-time job. 300+ real outages, live on-call shifts on an AWS estate and squad war rooms, led by Saurav Chaudhary.
5000+ engineers learning with InfraThrone
SEV-1checkout-api · prod · you’re on call02:47:13
02:47:13pagerCheckout error rate 18% (SLO 0.5%)
02:47:20grafanap99 latency 4.8s, baseline 220ms
02:47:31k8spods Ready 12/12, looks healthy
02:47:44deploypayments-svc v2.14.0 rolled out 23m ago
02:47:52#war-room“is it the DB?” “just roll back!”
What will you check first?
Pick one. Interviews ask this same question in different words.
5000+
Engineers mentored
300+
Production outage scenarios
10
12-hour on-call shifts (Elite Pro)
16
Batches over 2 years
100K+
Community across socials
The mirror / challenges
You checked every box. Then production went down.
Tap every card that sounds like you.
At the same pointThe problem isn’t what you know. It’s the level you operate at.
Knowing tools→Trusted with production←InfraThrone Elite is the bridge
What companies pay senior engineers for
- Troubleshoot
- Make decisions
- Handle incidents
- Own production
- Explain their work
0 of 6 sound like you
See how Elite closes themMeet your instructor
Learn from someone who’s been in the trenches.
Real production outages at companies that can’t afford to fail.
#1DevOps mentor on Topmate
Saurav Chaudhary
Principal DevOps Architect, founder of InfraThrone
10+ years in production systems. Specialized in high-stakes incident response and infrastructure that serves millions. Elite exists because engineers kept asking for help with real outages, not tools.
- 5000+engineers mentored
- 10+years production experience
- 500+incidents resolved
- 100K+community
Ranked #1 in DevOps mentorship globally on Topmate, out of 600K+ creators
Topmate Awards, Top 25 in ’25 ↗How Elite works
Built around your full-time job.
Your workday stays untouched. Everything live happens in the evening, IST.
1
Entry interview
We map where you are technically, so your path and pace fit you.
2
60 days live
Then platform access stays with you: 6 months on Elite, 1 year on Elite Pro.
Your time6–8 hrs
a week, alongside your job
7 PM8 PM9 PM10–11 PM
Mon
Free eveningPeer learning
Tue
Free eveningPeer learningDoubt class
Wed
Free eveningPeer learning
Thu
Free eveningPeer learningDoubt class
Fri
Free eveningPeer learning
Sat
War rooms & enterprise projectsPeer learning
Sun
War rooms & enterprise projectsPeer learning
Live, 7–9 PMPeer learning, optionalDoubt class, Tue and Thu
On-call: 1–2 twelve-hour shifts a month. You hold the pager alongside your day and respond when paged.
Stuck on a concept? Doubt classes twice a week, plus resources from the platform.
The framework
Week 0, then an 8-week journey to applied Elite engineering
Week 0HireReady interview
Go deep on
Your goal, current level and timeline
Career
Your personal execution plan
Week 1Baseline & foundations
Go deep on
Gap map, Linux & networking under failure
Practice
CoreOps outage drills
Week 2Cloud-native core
Go deep on
Containers, AWS networking, Terraform
Practice
Squad war rooms
Week 3Kubernetes internals & HA
Go deep on
Scheduling, networking, probes, autoscaling
Practice
Kubernetes war rooms
Week 4Security & cost
Go deep on
Hardening, RBAC, secrets, cost optimisation
Practice
Cost-cutting case study
Week 5Observability & auto-healing
Go deep on
Metrics, logs, p95/p99, alerting, AI automation
Practice
First live on-call shift
Week 6DR, resilience & chaos
Go deep on
Backups, failover, chaos experiments
Career
HireReady: resume & profiles
Week 7DevSecOps & platform engineering
Go deep on
Secure CI/CD, GitOps, internal platforms
Practice
Enterprise project + mock interviews
Week 8Capstone & career launch
Go deep on
Project delivery, RCA write-ups
Career
Readiness report + talent marketplace
Anyone can type
$ kubectl delete pod checkout-7f9cA trusted engineer thinks first. Every drill trains this loop:- 1 Assess
What is the impact?
Who is affected, how badly, and what changed?
- 2 Investigate
Where do I look first?
What evidence supports my hypothesis?
- 3 Decide
Roll back, scale or fail over?
What is the blast radius? What if I’m wrong?
- 4 Verify
Did it recover?
Can I prove it, and explain why I did it?
What you get
The tools that get you there.
Tools you’ll use inside Elite. Each one changes something for you.
War Zone
317 real-world incidents. Drill what you learn.
Filter by technology or by famous company outages, open a mission brief, and go alone or with your squad. Try a filter:
317 All incidents ready to drill
- Hands-on debugging, not reading about it
- RCA after every mission
Live outage
A real terminal on a live cluster, with an AI coach beside you.
Timed labs like “The $460 Million Deployment” drop you into a broken system. Kubie, the AI coach, nudges your reasoning without handing you the answer.
- Real kubectl, real cluster, real failure modes
- Mission, hints and resources in one panel
- Kubie asks what you see, so you learn to reason out loud
On-call simulation
Practise being on call, before it’s real.
Domain-based incidents from FinTech, eCommerce and more: payments failing at peak, checkout latency climbing, a dependency slowing down while retries make it worse.
- 1SelectThe AWS estate
- 2BriefRead the infra
- 3JoinStart the shift
- 4PageAn incident fires
- 5FixOpen the console
- 12-hour shifts, 1–2 a month
- 10 shifts on Elite Pro, 5 on Elite
Squad war rooms
Real incidents are rarely solved alone.
Four engineers, four theories. In your squad you learn to work through that with evidence and land on a decision under pressure.
- Investigate evidence and form hypotheses
- Challenge assumptions and defend decisions
- Communicate under pressure, work toward mitigation
# war-room · sev-1 · checkout-errors● LIVE
Who is right?
Readiness Report
A report card recruiters trust.
Everything you practise is tracked. You get one report that shows your real skills, and you attach it to every job application.
- Built from your labs, outages, on-call shifts and interviews
- Shows your strengths area by area
- One page, ready to attach
Cohort rankings
Everything you do earns proof.
Labs, RCAs, assignments, quizzes and mock interviews all earn points. Recruiters get something concrete to verify.
- A public signal of real practice, not another badge
- Feeds your readiness report in week 8
- #1
JamalInfra Architect, 11+ yrs6,815 pts - #2
YashJoined as a fresher5,642 pts - #3
RobinPlatform Engineer, 15+ yrs3,158 pts
What our members say
Your doubts, answered by graduates. Every person here is real and linked, so you can check.
The doubt: “I already have the certifications.”
“I had the Kubernetes certs for years. Cohort war rooms are what finally turned that into command under a real timer.”
The doubt: “How will recruiters trust my skills?”
“Public signals on the platform spoke louder than another badge on LinkedIn. Recruiters finally had something concrete to verify.”
From fresher to 15+ years. Experience isn’t the entry ticket. Hunger is.
Four Elite graduates, placed by their years in DevOps.
- Rank #2 in his cohortYash PrajapatiDevOps & Cloud Engineer, Vapi
- Feyisayo LasisiSenior DevOps Engineer, Lagos
- Jamal AfsarInfra Architect, Hyderabad
- Robin SharmaPlatform Engineer, Noida
Still unsure? Talk to an Elite graduate before you pay.Ask about the workload, the war rooms and what changed for them.
Talk to a graduateHireReady 1:1
Getting better technically is only half the journey.
HireReady turns your ability into positioning, interviews and offers. Pick a goal to see your plan.
Step 1: pick your goal
Step 2: we map your gap
Your goal+Current reality+Timeline
Senior DevOps or SRE: more production depth, on-call ownership and system-design stories you can defend.
= Your personal execution plan
Step 3: weekend 1:1sElite Pro
One-on-one with Saurav and the teaching assistants
Weekend 1:1s keep your plan moving: resume, LinkedIn and Naukri profiles fixed, mock panels, and a prep-and-debrief loop around every real interview.
pipeline: opportunity-engine
- Positioning
Resume → LinkedIn → GitHub → profile story
- Visibility
Technical content → community → networking → proof
- Distribution
Recruiters → hiring managers → referrals → InfraThrone network
- Technical proof
Projects → outages → on-call → RCA → production stories
- Interview loop
Interview → feedback → find gap → fix gap → interview again
- Talent marketplaceBeing built
Recruiters in India, the US, UK, Germany, Australia and Canada hiring the top 1% of DevOps engineers, free for them. Now opening to recruiters.
Who you become
From claiming knowledge to showing proof.
Before
“I know DevOps.”
After
“This is what I can build, troubleshoot, operate and defend.”
Troubleshooting
You know several tools, but it feels random
You think in systems, evidence, impact and decisions
Outages
Limited exposure to real outages
You’ve investigated outages and handled on-call systematically
Teamwork
You learn and debug alone
You’ve troubleshot alongside other engineers
Resume
Your resume lists technologies but doesn’t prove depth
Your resume is backed by real technical proof
Interviews
Scenario questions expose your gaps
You reason deeper and turn feedback into fixes
Career
Always learning, unsure what’s stopping your next move
You know the exact gap between your profile and your target
Why not just do labs myself?
Labs teach commands. Elite trains judgment.
| What you get | Free YouTubeWatch and follow along | Lab platformsSelf-paced, guided steps | InfraThrone EliteTrained under pressure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learn tools and commands | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓Yes |
| Think in systems under pressure | — No | Guided steps | ✓Yesevery drill |
| 300+ real-world outage scenarios | — No | Some scenarios | ✓Yes |
| Live on-call on an AWS estate | — No | — No | ✓Yes |
| Squad war rooms with peers | — No | — No | ✓Yes |
| Personalised path from an entry interview | — No | — No | ✓Yes |
| Interview and career execution (HireReady)* | — No | — No | ✓Yes |
| Mentor ranked #1 on Topmate | — No | — No | ✓Yes |
| Score | 1 / 8 | 1 / 8+ 2 partial | 8 / 8 |
* HireReady personalised support is part of Elite Pro.
Pricing plans
Choose a plan that fits your journey
Built to make you the engineer teams trust with production. Same cohort, same 60 days of live mentorship.
Elite Pro
Most popularFor engineers who want deeper personal support, extended access, unlimited on-call practice, and career execution accountability.
₹74,999
₹79,999
About ₹205 a day over a full year
- Platform access for 12 months
- 60 days of live mentorship
- 300+ production outage drills
- 10 live on-call shifts, 12 hours each
- Squad war rooms
- HireReady with weekend 1:1s with Saurav and TAs
Elite
For engineers who want complete transformation through live training + platform practice.
₹44,999
₹46,999
About ₹247 a day over 6 months
- Platform access for 6 months
- 60 days of live mentorship
- 300+ production outage drills
- 5 live on-call shifts, 12 hours each
- Squad war rooms
- HireReady and weekend 1:1s not included
Reserve your seat for₹10,000
- Counts toward your fee
- Refundable*
- * Refund requests are accepted any time prior to the conclusion of the cohort's first week
FAQ
Got questions? We’ve got answers.
Still have questions? Speak to someone who has done it, or to us.
01Can I do this with a full-time job?
Yes. Plan for 6–8 hours a week.Weekend war rooms run 7–9 PM IST, weeknight peer learning is optional, doubt classes are Tuesday and Thursday 10–11 PM, and on-call is 1–2 twelve-hour shifts a month that run alongside your day.
02How long is the program?
60 days live.It starts with an entry interview. After the live program you keep platform access: 6 months on Elite, a full year on Elite Pro.
03Do I need prior experience?
You need the basics, not years.You should be able to navigate a terminal, read logs and debug basic cloud and container issues. Elite teaches judgment under pressure, not kubectl from zero. Yash came in as a fresher and ranked #2 in his cohort.
04Is this live?
Yes, for 60 days.Weekend war rooms and enterprise projects are live, doubt classes are live twice a week, and on-call shifts happen on a live AWS estate.
05InfraThrone Elite vs InfraThrone Elite Pro?
Pick Elite Pro if you want the career outcome.Both share the same cohort and live mentorship. Elite Pro adds HireReady with weekend 1:1s with Saurav and the TAs, 10 on-call shifts instead of 5, and a full year of platform access instead of 6 months.
06What if it’s not for me?
Full refund in week 1.If you’re unsatisfied with the program in the first week, you get your money back.
07How does the ₹10,000 reservation work?
It holds your seat and counts toward your fee.The reservation is refundable. Refund requests are accepted any time prior to the conclusion of the cohort's first week Credit card EMI is available for the rest.
SEV-1 → Resolved
Your next career move starts here.
Where production goes down, you rise up. Your next year doesn’t need another saved playlist. It needs:
- Execution
- Pressure
- Feedback
- Proof
Infrathrone Elite Pro
₹79,999₹74,999