DevOps Certification
Certified DevOps - Architect
Empowers you to lead the transformation of the organization’s architecture from traditional waterfall or agile to DevOps.
Certification Overview
Design, Scale, and Lead Modern DevOps Architectures for 2026 and Beyond
The Certified DevOps Architect certification is designed for senior technology professionals who architect, govern, and scale modern, cloud native, automated, and AI enabled delivery platforms.
As organizations move beyond basic CI/CD toward platform engineering, GitOps, DevSecOps, resilience engineering, and AI assisted operations, DevOps Architects play a critical role in shaping systems that are scalable, secure, observable, and future ready. This certification validates your ability to design and lead such architectures at enterprise scale.
Certification Cost: $120 $95 USD
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Description
The Certified DevOps Architect certification equips you to:
- Architect cloud native and hybrid delivery platforms
- Design scalable CI/CD and GitOps based deployment models
- Embed security, compliance, and resilience into system design
- Enable automation and self service through platform engineering
- Leverage AI for intelligent automation, observability, and optimization
Governed by DevOps University, this globally aligned certification reflects real world enterprise architecture responsibilities and prepares professionals for modern DevOps architecture roles in 2026 and beyond.
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Topics Covered
Benefits
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Benefits for Employees, IT professionals
Advance into high impact roles such as DevOps Architect, Platform Architect, or Cloud Architect
Gain credibility as a strategic architect, not just a tool expert
Strengthen your ability to design enterprise grade DevOps platforms
Improve decision making with architecture level visibility and AI insights
Increase long term career relevance in cloud native and AI driven organizations
Stand out in the job market with a future aligned, globally recognized certification
Benefits for Employers/Organizations
Faster and more reliable delivery through well architected DevOps platforms
Reduced operational risk with built in security and resilience
Scalable delivery models aligned with business growth
Improved developer productivity through platform engineering
Strong governance using GitOps and automated controls
Better observability and proactive issue resolution using AI
Future ready architectures capable of adapting to evolving technologies
Salary & Market Trends
DevOps remains one of the most in-demand and highest-paying IT domains worldwide.
DevOps Architect roles are among the highest paid positions in the DevOps ecosystem
Professionals with cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, and DevSecOps expertise command premium compensation
Organizations increasingly seek architects who can combine technical depth with strategic thinking
Demand continues to grow as enterprises adopt platform engineering and AI enabled operations
DevOps Architects with modern skills experience faster career progression and global opportunities
Certified DevOps professionals typically enjoy higher salaries, faster growth, and broader role opportunities.
Architect - the Future of DevOps
Modern DevOps success depends on strong architecture. The Certified DevOps Architect certification prepares you to design and lead scalable, secure, and intelligent DevOps platforms that power high performing organizations in the years ahead.
Topics Covered
Targeted Audience
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How It Works
Targeted Audience
Anyone who is keen in learning about the principles of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, should go for this certification:
- DevOps Architects and Senior DevOps Engineers
- Cloud Architects and Platform Engineers
- Enterprise and Solution Architects
- SRE Leaders and Reliability Engineers
- DevSecOps Architects and Security focused Engineers
- Senior Developers transitioning into architectural roles
- Technology leaders responsible for scalable delivery platforms
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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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Topics & Skills Covered
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Post completion of Certified DevOps Architect exam, you will get mastery on the following skills:
- Cloud native architecture design (microservices, containers, Kubernetes)
- CI/CD architecture and pipeline optimization
- GitOps driven deployment and governance models
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration automation
- DevSecOps architecture and policy driven security
- Observability architecture: metrics, logs, traces, and AIOps
- Resilience engineering and high availability design
- Platform engineering and internal developer platforms (IDPs)
- AI assisted DevOps automation and decision support
- Designing for scalability, performance, and reliability
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effective DevOps Skills Development
You must have knowledge on the following topics to gain your Certified DevOps Architect certificate:
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Certification Cost: $120 $95 USD
Certification Exam
Description
The Certified DevOps Engineer – Architect 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%
: 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.
This certification is suitable for individuals who are involved in the design, implementation, and management of DevOps deployment pipelines and toolchains that promote Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Testing and possibly Continuous Deployment.
DevOps Architect Certification highlights foundation processes, metrics, APls and cultural decisions associated with Continuous Delivery. It gives you hands-on confidence to implement DevOps architecture and design across all phases of the cycle.
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.