AI SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & RELIABILITY (Online) COURSE

Learn the skills to deploy, monitor, scale, and maintain production-grade AI systems in real-world cloud environments. Our AI Systems Engineering & Reliability (Online) course gives you the skills, hands-on practice, and creative and technical confidence to bridge the gap between building AI models and keeping them running reliably while maintaining performance under pressure, implementing proactive monitoring, and responding to incidents with precision and data-informed decision-making. transformation.

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Build your AI software engineering foundation

This course is one of four courses in the AI Software Engineering learning pathway, designed to help learners build and deploy AI-powered applications across the modern software stack. You can take this course on its own, or complete the full pathway to deepen your understanding of front-end development, back-end architecture, AI-enabled systems, and real-world implementation. More courses in this pathway:

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the Total cost of this course is $2,950

Take two courses and qualify for an additional two courses for free. With a bundle discount, all four courses are available for a total tuition of $5,900.*

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Who’s this for?

This course is for DevOps and infrastructure engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, site reliability engineers, operations teams, technical managers, and platform leaders seeking to extend their skills into AI-specific operational challenges and who want:

Hands-on experience with AI tools applied to real AI systems engineering scenarios
Learning with structure, community, and live instruction
Skills you can apply immediately to current projects

TECHNICAL SETUP

Laptop with administrator access
13"+ screen, 8GB RAM, and 40GB free storage
Stable internet with dual-monitor setup and webcam for online sessions
Full technical setup guide and support provided after enrollment

RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCE

This intermediate level course is designed to be accessible while building toward advanced operational practices. Learners will benefit from:

Foundational knowledge of how AI applications are built and deployed
Familiarity with programming concepts, cloud environments, or prior experience in data or software workflows

No prior experience with reliability engineering or DevOps is required.

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Course Agenda

Build a foundational understanding of AI system operations, cloud environments, and infrastructure automation
Learn how data, models, and services interact in production systems, deploy environments using Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and apply DevOps principles to maintain consistency and performance across AI workloads

Apply reliability engineering principles, implement observability and monitoring tools, and learn structured approaches to incident response and recovery
Explore SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, configure monitoring dashboards with Prometheus and Grafana, and practice postmortem analysis to strengthen fault tolerance

Implement continuous integration pipelines, containerization, and deployment strategies that enable scalability and rapid iteration
Gain hands-on experience automating workflows, deploying with Kubernetes and ArgoCD, and designing systems that stay performant and secure at scale

Design scalable architectures, apply DevSecOps principles to protect models and data, and tune system performance for efficiency at scale
Learn horizontal and vertical scaling strategies, implement security and governance best practices, and optimize cost-to-performance ratios

Apply all operational and reliability skills to optimize, audit, and validate AI systems in production
Conduct reliability audits, implement continuous improvement strategies, and complete a capstone project demonstrating end-to-end operational excellence

WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM DIFFERENT

✓ Live cohort learning: Learn with a structured group of professionals who share your goals. Get real-time answers from expert instructors during live sessions.

✓ Comprehensive skill stack: Master the complete AI operations lifecycle—from infrastructure automation and reliability engineering to incident response, scaling, and continuous improvement—developing the skills and confidence to keep AI-enabled systems stable, secure, and efficient after deployment.

✓ Hands-on practice: Learn through 17 hands-on lab hours with projects designed to help you build the operational expertise to deploy, monitor, and maintain AI systems that actually work in production.

✓ Workplace-relevant application: Learn to implement observability, automation, and resilience engineering practices that define production-grade AI operations—focusing on practical skills, industry-standard tools, and the operational excellence that most AI initiatives lack.

AI IS CHANGING WORK—

WE HELP YOU STAY AHEAD

85%
85% of enterprises have adopted AI initiatives, but only 53% report confidence in their ability to monitor and govern these systems

(Source: cloudfactory, 2025)
80%
More than 80% of AI projects fail—twice the rate of non-AI IT projects

(Source: Rand, 2024)
39%
Only 39% of organizations are building reliable internal frameworks to support AI adoption

(Source: ITPro, 2025)

KEY TAKEAWAYS

You'll leave this course with these AI systems engineering skills:

DEPLOY AND MANAGE AI SYSTEMS IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

You'll develop expertise in operating AI-enabled systems across distributed, cloud-based environments including AWS, GCP, and Azure. Learn to provision infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, manage containerized deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, and build CI/CD pipelines that support continuous integration and model updates.

IMPLEMENT OBSERVABILITY, MONITORING, AND INCIDENT RESPONSE

You'll gain practical experience building observability stacks and alerting systems to track performance, detect drift, and prevent downtime. Master Prometheus and Grafana for real-time monitoring, apply SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure reliability, and practice structured incident response with root cause analysis and postmortem documentation.

SCALE, SECURE, AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AI OPERATIONS

You'll learn to design scalable architectures with redundancy, failover, and automated recovery while applying DevSecOps principles to protect models and data. Develop skills in performance testing, cost optimization, reliability audits, and chaos engineering—culminating in a capstone project that demonstrates production-ready operational excellence.

INSTRUCTORS WITH REAL-WORLD CRED

Learn from real-world AI systems engineering pros who bring hands-on experience straight from the field to the classroom. Every GA instructor is committed to giving the personalized feedback and support you need to crush your goals every step of the way.

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THE WORD FROM GA GRADS

“Getting exposure and time with our instructor and classmates meant we could get to know other industries and how they approach marketing problems. This course gave me the confidence in my decision to move to marketing.”

Kiki Tolentino

GA grad, Digital Marketing Short Course

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AI is reshaping every role and every industry, and learning AI skills to enhance your role is no longer optional. General Assembly's AI Systems Engineering & Reliability (Online) is live, cohort-based training that equips learners with the practical skills to deploy, monitor, scale, and maintain production-grade AI systems in real-world cloud environments. In 32 hours, you’ll master the complete AI operations lifecycle—from infrastructure automation and reliability engineering to incident response, security, and continuous improvement.

Yes. When you pass this course, you’ll receive a LinkedIn-verified digital badge. Thousands of GA alumni around the world use their course badge to demonstrate their skills to their LinkedIn networks, potential employers, and more. Our courses are well-regarded by many top employers, who contribute to our curriculum and partner with us to train their own teams.

This is an intermediate-level course. It is recommended that learners are familiar with the fundamentals of machine learning and Natural Language Processing as well as how AI applications are built and deployed. Familiarity with programming concepts, cloud environments, or prior experience (between 1-2 years) in data or software workflows will help learners get the most from the hands-on labs.

Our Admissions team can discuss your background and learning goals to advise if this course is a good fit for you.

General Assembly's AI Systems Engineering & Reliability (Online) is live, cohort-based training that equips learners with the operational expertise to deploy, monitor, scale, and maintain production-grade AI systems in real-world cloud environments. The course teaches industry-standard tools like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ArgoCD to help learners master the complete AI operations lifecycle—from infrastructure automation and reliability engineering to incident response, security, and continuous improvement. In 32 hours, you’ll learn to bridge the gap between building AI models and keeping them running reliably, all while maintaining performance under pressure, implementing proactive monitoring, and responding to incidents with precision and data-informed decision-making. You’ll also receive a LinkedIn-verified digital badge upon successful course completion.

Key learning outcomes include:

Deploying and managing AI systems in cloud environments
Implementing observability, monitoring, and incident response
Scaling, securing, and continuously improving AI operations

Yes. All of our courses are designed for busy professionals with full-time work commitments. There’s no prework, and the workload is designed to be manageable with a full-time job. If you need to miss a session or two, we offer resources to help you catch up. We recommend you discuss any planned absences with your instructor.

Our Admissions team is here to help and can advise whether this course is right for you and your learning goals. You can also:

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*Course modality options vary by location, pending market availability and eligibility. Please contact our Admissions team to discuss course eligibility and what version is available in your location.

Education does not guarantee outcomes, including, but not limited to, employment or future earnings potential.

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AI SYSTEMS ENGINEERING & RELIABILITY (Online) COURSE

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TECHNICAL SETUP

RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCE

BRING YOUR OWN AI

Course Agenda

Unit 1: Foundations of AI System Operations

Unit 2: Reliability Engineering and Monitoring

Unit 3: Automation, Deployment, and Scaling Strategies

Unit 4: Scaling, Security, and Performance Management

Unit 5: Reliability Audits, Automation, and Continuous Improvement

WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM DIFFERENT

AI IS CHANGING WORK—

WE HELP YOU STAY AHEAD

KEY TAKEAWAYS

DEPLOY AND MANAGE AI SYSTEMS IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS

IMPLEMENT OBSERVABILITY, MONITORING, AND INCIDENT RESPONSE

SCALE, SECURE, AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AI OPERATIONS

INSTRUCTORS WITH REAL-WORLD CRED

THE WORD FROM GA GRADS

Kiki Tolentino

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QUESTIONS? WE'VE GOT ANSWERS.

WHY ARE AI SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND RELIABILITY SKILLS RELEVANT TODAY?

WILL I EARN A DIGITAL BADGE?

DO I NEED PRIOR EXPERIENCE?

WHAT DOES MY TUITION COVER?

WHAT WILL I WORK ON DURING THE COURSE?

CAN I WORK FULL-TIME WHILE ENROLLED IN THIS COURSE?

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