DevOps Certification
Certified DevOps - Operational Engineer
Design delivery and deployment back-up plans to handle sudden, unfavourable situations and avoiding application down-time.
Certification Overview
Build, Operate, and Scale Reliable Cloud-Native Systems with Modern DevOps & AIOps
The Certified DevOps Operational Engineering certification is designed for professionals responsible for operating, scaling, and sustaining modern production systems in cloud-native, distributed, and high-availability environments.
As organizations move beyond traditional IT operations, DevOps operations roles now demand expertise in reliability engineering, observability, automation, GitOps, and AI-enabled operations (AIOps). This certification prepares you to manage real-world production environments where uptime, resilience, security, and performance directly impact business outcomes.
Governed by DevOps University, this globally recognized certification validates your readiness to operate enterprise-scale DevOps and SRE-driven systems in 2026 and beyond.
Certification Cost: $120 $95 USD
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Description
Modern DevOps operations is no longer reactive or manual. Organizations expect operational engineers to:
- Prevent incidents, not just respond to them
- Design self-healing and observable systems
- Apply SRE principles to ensure reliability at scale
- Use AI and data-driven insights to optimize performance
This certification equips you with the skills to deliver predictable, resilient, and cost-efficient operations in complex cloud-native environments.
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Benefits
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Benefits for Employees, IT professionals
Build future-ready skills aligned with SRE and platform engineering roles
Move beyond reactive support into predictive and resilient operations
Gain hands-on understanding of real-world production challenges
Increase employability in cloud-native and enterprise environments
Prepare for senior roles such as SRE Lead, Platform Engineer, or Reliability Architect
Strengthen decision-making using observability data and AI insights
Earn a globally recognized DevOps University certification
Benefits for Employers/Organizations
Improved system reliability, uptime, and customer experience
Faster incident resolution and reduced production downtime
Stronger governance using GitOps and automation
Lower operational costs through intelligent automation and FinOps
Enhanced security posture through DevSecOps practices
Scalable and resilient platforms supporting rapid digital growth
Operations teams aligned with modern DevOps and SRE standards
Topics Covered
Targeted Audience
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How It Works
Targeted Audience
Some of the roles that can benefit from Certified DevOps Operational Engineer Certification:
- DevOps Engineers managing live production systems
- Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and aspiring SREs
- Cloud Operations and Platform Engineers
- Infrastructure & Operations professionals transitioning to DevOps
- Kubernetes and cloud-native operations teams
- Production support, NOC, and reliability engineers
- Technical leads responsible for system stability and uptime
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How It Works
Targeted Audience
Some of the roles that can benefit from the DevOps Professional Certification are:
- Software Developers
- Technical Project Managers
- Solution Architects
- Operations Support
- Deployment Engineers
- Software Testers
- Security Engineers
- Integration Specialists
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Salary & Market Outlook
DevOps remains one of the most in-demand and highest-paying IT domains worldwide.
Strong global demand for DevOps Operations Engineers and SREs
Organizations prioritize skills in cloud-native operations, Kubernetes, and observability
SRE and platform engineering roles command 20–40% higher compensation than traditional operations roles
AIOps and reliability engineering are becoming core hiring requirements
Enterprises continue to invest heavily in upskilling operations teams to reduce outages and downtime
Certified DevOps Operational Engineers typically enjoy higher salaries, faster growth, and broader role opportunities.
Career Path After Certification
DevOps Engineer / Operations Engineer
Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
SRE Lead / Platform Engineer
Reliability Architect / Platform Architect
Head of Reliability / Infrastructure & Operations Leadership
Topics Covered
Topics & Skills Covered
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Post completion of Certified DevOps Operational Engineer exam, you will get mastery on the following skills:
- DevOps Operations & SRE fundamentals
- Cloud-native operations on AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid and multi-cloud
- Kubernetes operations, scaling, and lifecycle management
- GitOps for operational governance and environment control
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and immutable infrastructure
- Observability engineering: metrics, logs, traces, golden signals
- SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budget management
- Incident response, on-call strategies, and postmortems
- Chaos engineering and resilience testing
- Reliability patterns for distributed systems
- DevSecOps in operations: policy-as-code and runtime security
- Cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Platform engineering and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- Automation and self-healing operational workflows
- AIOps and intelligent operations
- Predictive alerting and anomaly detection
- Automated root cause analysis
- AI-driven capacity planning
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effective DevOps Skills Development
Post the DevOps Operational Engineer Certification, you will have acquired expertise of the following skills:
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Certification Cost: $120 $95 USD
Certification Exam
Description
The Certified DevOps – Operational Engineer Exam is conducted fully online, allowing candidates to take the exam from anywhere using their own computer. The exam includes 40 questions to be completed in 60 minutes and assesses both theoretical knowledge and practical understanding through multiple-choice and scenario-based questions.
A minimum score of 70% is required to pass. The certification is governed and issued by DevOps University.
How to Prepare for the Exam
Exam Details
Number of questions
Passing score
Duration
Format
Online
Maximum Attempts
Certificate validation
Cost
: 70% (21 questions)
: 60 minutes
: MCQ, True/False
: Yes
: 1
: 3 Years (renewable)
: $120 $95
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FAQs
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The success rate of DevOps Certification exams lies between 90% – 95%.
Yes, once you buy an exam you will get access to a personalized student dashboard from where you can see your DevOps Certification details. You can also download your earned certification and badge from here.
An email notification with your exam credentials will be sent on your registered email id and you can take your exam within 60 days.
The certification is appropriate for IT Operations professionals who are involved in deploying deployment strategies for their organizations.
This certification focuses on deployment in a DevOps environment and covers all aspects of deployment automation. The major learning targets for this certification are instilling continuous deployment skills in operations team and how to drive a seamless and efficient deployment process.
Yes, you can take your exam online as per your convenience from anywhere.
Your employer any other organization can validate your DevOps Certifications credentials just by entering your certificate id or your personal credentials.
No, DevOpsUniversity.org doesn’t only value the training provided by its allied training partners, but we also acknowledge what expertise you have gained through self-study or other resources.
Yes, the DevOps Certifications provided by DevOpsUniversity.org are well recognized across the IT industry. DevOps Certifications assessment criteria is stringent and oriented on practical approach, which makes your DevOps Certification completely unique from our competitors.
DevOps Certification earned by you from DevOpsUniversity.org will be valid for lifetime.
Yes, the DevOps Certifications issued by DevOpsUniversity.org are accepted worldwide.