Start Here — Welcome to My Syseng Journey

Welcome. This blog documents my journey from Service Desk Analyst to Senior Systems Engineer — hands-on, on a real RHEL 10 server, one module at a time.

Every post here comes from something I actually built, broke, and fixed. No tutorials copied without practice. No theory without verification.

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Who I am

Biroue Isaac — Service Desk Analyst L2 at Insight, based in Casablanca.

4+ years in IT support, now systematically building the infrastructure engineering skills required to move into a Senior Systems Engineer role.

Full profile → About

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The roadmap

I follow a structured 38-module curriculum built from real Senior Systems Engineer job requirements:

Foundation → Services → High Availability → Automation → Observability → Cloud

Track	Modules	Status
Linux & System Administration	01, 06	✅ Done
Web Stack	02, 15	✅ Done
Databases	03, 07, 25	✅ / 🔄
Monitoring & Observability	04, 14	✅ / ⬜
High Availability	07, 21	🔄 In progress
Automation	08, 13, 28	🔄 In progress
Security	09, 32	⬜ Upcoming
Containers & K8s	11, 12	⬜ Upcoming
Cloud	30	⬜ Upcoming

Full roadmap → syseng-journey/ROADMAP.md

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Where to start reading

If you’re interested in…	Start with…
Nginx load balancing	High Availability
MariaDB replication	Databases
Ansible automation	Automation
Prometheus & Grafana	Monitoring
SELinux troubleshooting	Security
All projects with code	Projects

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Lab environment

OS:      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2
Kernel:  6.12.0
Access:  SSH + Tailscale VPN
Stack:   Nginx · MariaDB · Ansible · Prometheus · Grafana

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Follow the journey

• GitHub: github.com/biroue10
• All notes and configs: syseng-journey
• Ansible project: ansible-lemp-stack

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