IT and reskilling today. 

Companies of all sizes are striving to stay agile and competitive in the digital economy. To do this, IT departments must both update legacy platforms for today’s standards as well as introduce new capabilities through Digital Transformation initiatives. Making these changes can be a daunting task — particularly when organizations have built up a sizable tech debt over time. However, with smart transformative strategies in place companies can expect significant improvements to their efficiency, velocity, security and quality services – giving them an edge against competitors.  

Amid today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, IT leaders and individuals alike must be proactive to ensure they stay ahead of the game. The key? Establishing a culture that encourages continuous learning through upskilling and reskilling – it’ll help organizations remain competitive regardless of what lies in store for us down the road. To build such an effective strategy, however, understanding both current needs as well as future demands is paramount. 

For over 10 years, DevOps practices have revolutionized the IT space and propelled businesses to success. By adopting these best-in-class strategies in running operations, organizations are able to modernize their processes for maximum effectiveness and efficiency. 

DevOps Institute Certifications 

In the ever-evolving digital world, organizations need professionals with a solid foundation of DevOps knowledge and expertise to thrive. Validated skills in this area will help businesses take their transformation initiatives to new heights. 

Leverage your DevOps skills and validate them through the prestigious certification offered by DevOps Institute. Ensure that you’re in-demand for today’s competitive marketplace, while paving a successful career path. 

Are you looking to set yourself apart and stand out amongst your peers?  

Getting certified can help provide the necessary skills, knowledge, and qualifications needed for career advancements. Start today by taking that crucial step in getting recognized as a professional authority. 

DOL: DevOps Leader 

To foster a successful DevOps transformation, leaders must cultivate unique abilities and employ creative solutions with cutting-edge tools. A pioneering spirit is essential in guiding people through this journey of evolution.  

What You’ll Learn 

• DevOps and Transformational Leadership 
• Unlearning Behaviors 
• Becoming a DevOps Organization 
• Measure to Learn 
• Measure to Improve 
• Target Operating Models and Organizational Design 
• Articulating and Socializing Vision 
• Maintaining Energy and Momentum 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Culture change to distributed authority and improved team autonomy 
• Leadership evolves to be transformational 
• A focus on data-driven decision making 
• Measurable, value-driven outcomes for the DevOps journey 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Development of leadership skills 
• A tool-kit of assets to enact cultural improvement 
• Value stream-centric thinking and practices that improve flow 

DOF: DevOps Foundation 

As DevOps becomes more and more essential to digital success, teams need the proper expertise and know-how to create top notch software solutions fast. This is key to delivering customer satisfaction while staying ahead of the competition. 

What You’ll Learn 

• DevOps concepts and terminology 
• Core DevOps Principles 
• Key DevOps Practices 
• Business and Technology Frameworks 
• Culture, Behaviors and Operating Models 
• Automation and Architecting DevOps Toolchains 
• Measurement, Metrics, and Reporting 
• Sharing, Shadowing and Evolving 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Shorter development cycles, faster innovation 
• Reduced deployment failures, rollbacks, and time to recover 
• Improved communication and collaboration 
• Increased efficiencies 
• Reduced costs and IT headcount 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Common DevOps concepts and terminology 
• Benefits to the business and IT 
• Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, testing, security and the Three Ways 
• DevOps relationship to Agile, Lean and ITSM 
• Improved workflows, communication, and feedback loops 
• Automation practices including deployment pipelines and DevOps toolchains 
• Scaling DevOps for the enterprise 
• Demonstrate entry-level of DevOps knowledge 

DSOF: DevSecOps Foundation 

Data privacy regulations are becoming more stringent and data breaches have become an ever-present risk. As a result, it is essential for organizations to make security and compliance top priorities in their operations. 

What You’ll Learn 

• Why DevSecOps? 
• Culture and Management 
• Strategic Considerations 
• General Security Considerations 
• IAM: Identity and Access Management 
• Application Security 
• Operational Security 
• Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Audit 
• Logging, Monitoring, and Response 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Developing software that is secure by design 
• Improved assurance of meeting security, compliance, legal and regulatory requirements 
• Frictionless relationship between security professionals and developers 
• Better formed, scalable, and speed-aware security practices 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Understanding the contribution of DevSecOps to GRC and delivering business value 
• Understanding that security and speed in software development are not inversely-related objectives 
• Internalizing the contribution of tools and automation in DevSecOps 
• Understanding the role of culture in shifting security left 

SREF: Site Reliability Engineering Foundation 

As technology advances, organizations are facing an increasing number of changes and complexities that create a greater risk for outages or system malfunctions. To counteract this, IT teams should focus on enhancing service reliability and doing what they can to ensure resiliency in their systems. Fortunately, automation capabilities offer businesses the chance to improve efficiency when it comes time to make new deployments – thus making System Reliability Engineer one of the most sought-after roles today. 

What You’ll Learn 

• SRE Principles and Practices 
• Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets 
• Reducing Toil 
• Monitoring and Service Level Indicators 
• SRE Tools and Automation 
• Anti-Fragility and Learning from Failure 
• Organizational Impact of SRE 
• SRE, Other Frameworks, The Future 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Enhanced stability and reliability of services 
• Better understanding of how production services work 
• Increased balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience 
• Greater appreciation of the operational impact of services in development teams 
• Improvements in staff morale and retention 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Improved work balance with ring-fenced time for improvement 
• Less stressful on-call experiences and a reduction in overall call-out volumes 
• Broader skills-based capabilities that leverage the latest in automation 
• Improvement in workplace culture 
• Opportunities for “shifting left” and helping to ensure development teams deliver more reliable services 

SREP: Site Reliability Engineering Practitioner 

With the ever-evolving tech landscape, organizations must manage an increased presence of change without risking system outages. To better support reliable services and resilient systems in this dynamic environment, SREs have become essential for efficiently managing deployments at scale. Automation and observability are now key features to ensure successful implementation of these new initiatives – making it a highly sought after enterprise role. 

What You’ll Learn 

• Practical view of how to successfully implement a flourishing SRE culture in your organization 
• The underlying principles of SRE and an understanding of what it is not in terms of antipatterns 
• Organizational impact of introducing SRE. SLIs and SLOs in a distributed ecosystem and extending the usage of Error Budgets 
• Building security and resilience by design in a distributed, zero-trust environment 
• Implementing full-stack observability, distributed tracing and Observability-driven development culture 
• Curating data using AI to move from reactive to proactive and predictive incident management 
• Using DataOps to build clean data lineage 
• Why Platform Engineering is important in building consistency and predictability 
• Implementing practical Chaos Engineering 
• Major incident response responsibilities 
• SRE Execution model 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Implementing SRE and DevOps in the right way leading to higher Business Value 
• Enhanced stability and reliability of services 
• Major improvement of the product in the development, deployment and operations lifecycle 
• Increased balance between technical investment in reliability and customer experience 
• Homogenous culture and greater synchronization between product, development and operational teams Improvements in staff morale and retention 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Higher understanding of practical implementation of SRE culture 
• Designing services for higher security and reliability 
• Building fault-tolerant distributed ecosystems that can be tested for risks of disaster 
• Building observability and intelligence in operations 
• Broader skills-based capabilities that leverage the latest in automation 
• Higher understanding of other roles and contributing towards creating a better workplace culture 

CAPO: Certified Agile Process Owner 

This course covers key responsibilities for Process Owners and equips them with the understanding they need to excel in supervising IT Service Management (ITSM) processes, particularly amidst Agile methodology. So, dive right into it- be ready to enhance your skill set.  

What You’ll Learn 

Process Design Basics
Process Owner Role and Responsibilities
Agile and Scrum Basics
Agile Service Management Basics
Agile Process Design
Agile Process Improvement
Measuring Value
Process Improvement Tools and Technologies
Challenges and Critical Success Factors 

Benefits for Organizations 

Manage stakeholder requirements and translate those requirements into process activities and features that deliver value to the business and customers.
Facilitate speed and change to meet organizational and customer needs. 

Benefits for Individuals 

Deliver value more quickly
Focus on critical process activities and deploy in small, frequent releases
Faster feedback and focus on measuring business outcomes to enable continuous process improvement
Ensure agile, sustainable, and constantly evolving process 

CASM: Certified Agile Service Manager 

Embracing a DevOps and Agile mindset has quickly become key for organizations aiming to remain competitive, as these practices create greater customer value and drive improved business performance in an ever-changing world. Organizations that are fully embracing this new way of working have seen more significant revenue growth along with stronger overall profitability than those failing to make the switch. 

What You’ll Learn 

• What does it mean to “be agile?” 
• The Agile Manifesto, its core values, and principles 
• Adapting Agile thinking and values into service management 
• Agile concepts and practices including DevOps, ITIL®, SRE, Lean and Scrum 
• Scrum roles, artifacts, and events as it applies to processes 
• The two aspects of Agile Service Management: 
• Agile Process Improvement and Agile Process Engineering 

Benefits for Organizations 

• Faster time to market 
• Higher product quality 
• Reduced risks 
• Faster ROI 
• Higher customer satisfaction 

Benefits for Individuals 

• Respond to changing business requirements with agility 
• Smaller, faster implementation 
• Enhanced workflow 
• Shortened and amplify feedback loops 
• Continuous improvement and learning 

Take the wheel to an exciting future. Quickly and easily accelerate your career through jobs in sought-after fields such as technology, retail, finance, energy and beyond with DevOps Institute’s certifications.