Each specialization extends the same Urban-Stream lab — a simulated enterprise training environment built by Mobile ITT Solutions.
Advanced program schedules, tuition, prerequisites, and delivery options will be announced as cohorts are opened.
Operational Control
Splunk Observability, SIEM and SOC Operations Onboard machine data, build searches and dashboards, and operate security monitoring and incident workflows.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds centralized indexing, dashboards, alerting, and a security operations view across the Urban-Stream environment.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Operational Control
Red Hat Satellite and Enterprise Linux Lifecycle Management Manage content, provisioning, patching, and compliance for fleets of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds a Satellite content and provisioning tier that builds and patches the Urban-Stream Linux estate.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Operational Control
Advanced Ansible Automation Platform Move from ad-hoc playbooks to governed, auditable enterprise automation with approvals and role-based access.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds an automation controller that provisions, configures, and remediates Urban-Streams systems through workflows.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Platform Depth
Enterprise Network Engineering Design and troubleshoot the addressing, routing, segmentation, and edge services enterprise systems depend on.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds segmented VLANs, routed zones, firewall policy, VPN access, and load-balanced edge services.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Platform Depth
Identity, Access Management and PKI Operate directory services, authentication, certificates, and privileged access across Linux and Windows.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds unified identity, certificate services, TLS everywhere, and privileged-access controls.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Platform Depth
Cybersecurity, STIG, Zero Trust and RMF Operations Harden, assess, and continuously monitor infrastructure using recognized security frameworks.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds hardening baselines, vulnerability scanning, auditing, and continuous-monitoring evidence.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Platform Depth
PostgreSQL Database Engineering and High Availability Run, tune, replicate, and recover production PostgreSQL databases.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds a replicated PostgreSQL cluster with pooling, backups, and tested point-in-time recovery.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Platform Depth
Enterprise Storage, Backup and Disaster Recovery Design storage, protect data, and prove recovery against defined objectives.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds shared storage, snapshots, replication, and a tested disaster-recovery runbook.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Modern Platforms
Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructure Build clustered virtualization with templates, virtual networking, and resource governance.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds a clustered hypervisor platform hosting the Urban-Stream systems with high availability.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Modern Platforms
Containers, Kubernetes and OpenShift Platform Engineering Build, deploy, secure, and scale containerized workloads on Kubernetes and OpenShift.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds a container platform running Urban-Stream application services with routes, storage, and quotas.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Modern Platforms
Cloud Architecture and Infrastructure as Code Design cloud infrastructure and provision it repeatably with Terraform.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds cloud-hosted components and hybrid connectivity defined entirely as code.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Modern Platforms
DevSecOps, CI/CD and Software Supply Chain Deliver infrastructure and application changes through tested, scanned, auditable pipelines.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds pipelines, scanning, secrets management, and GitOps-driven change control for the lab.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Streaming, Reliability and Architecture
Streaming Platform Engineering and Media Delivery Build the ingest, transcoding, packaging, and delivery path behind a simulated streaming service.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds media ingest, transcoding, adaptive packaging, origin and cache tiers, and playback telemetry.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Streaming, Reliability and Architecture
Site Reliability Engineering, Performance and Capacity Define reliability targets, measure them, and improve systems through testing and postmortems.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds SLOs, tracing, load testing, failure injection, and incident review practice.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program Schedule and tuition to be announced
Streaming, Reliability and Architecture
Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture and Governance Turn requirements into documented reference architectures, cost models, and migration roadmaps.
Adds to the Urban-Stream lab Adds architecture documentation, trust boundaries, governance artifacts, and a migration roadmap for the lab.
Recommended prerequisite Systems Engineer/Administrator Program plus prior specialization experience Schedule and tuition to be announced