Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
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Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer is a professional certification from Google Cloud that costs $200 and takes 120–180 hours to prepare for. The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer validates the ability to build and implement DevOps practices on Google Cloud — CI/CD pipelines, SRE principles, service monitoring, incident management, and infrastructure automation using Cloud Build, Terraform, and Google Cloud operations tools.
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About This Certification
The Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer validates the ability to build and implement DevOps practices on Google Cloud — CI/CD pipelines, SRE principles, service monitoring, incident management, and infrastructure automation using Cloud Build, Terraform, and Google Cloud operations tools.
Who It's For
DevOps engineers, SREs, and platform engineers with GCP experience who are implementing reliability and delivery practices at scale. Requires Associate Cloud Engineer and DevOps domain experience.