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DataOps-FC · DevOpsSchool Certification

DataOps Foundation Certified (DataOps-FC)

Master DataOps principles, data pipeline automation, data quality, and collaborative data engineering practices. Every session is a live demo in a real lab environment — not slides, not theory. You watch the instructor build it, then you build it yourself.

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Duration
5 weeks
Total content
100+ hours
Per tool
5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Final exam
3 hrs · online · open-book
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What's included
  • 5-week program · 100+ hours of content
  • Live & interactive instructor sessions
  • 2 assignments & 1 capstone per tool
  • 3-hour online open-book final exam
  • Recordings, slides & lab repos
  • Industry-recognised digital certificate
  • Lifetime forum support — ask anything, forever
  • FREE 1-year LMS access — entire DevOpsSchool LMS: 20+ courses, 50+ tools, videos, quizzes, assignments & projects.
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# career outcomes

Walk in an engineer. Walk out a DataOps-FC who ships.

By the end of DataOps-FC, you'll have shipped 12 production-grade artefacts and proven you can:

Design CI/CD for multi-service applications, with branching, gates, and progressive rollout.

Provision infrastructure as code across AWS, Azure, or GCP using Terraform — including drift control.

Automate configuration at scale with Ansible — idempotent playbooks, secret-free roles.

Run containers on Kubernetes — workloads, networking, autoscaling, observability.

Shift security left — SAST/DAST, SBOM, signed images, policy as code with OPA.

Operate SLOs — define error budgets, run incident response, write postmortems.

Median salary after certification
$118K – $165K
Roles our DataOps-FC alumni land: DevOps Engineer · Platform Engineer · SRE · Build & Release Manager · Cloud Automation Lead. Based on alumni reporting, 2024–25.
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# why this program

It's training built by people who run production for a living.

Taught by senior practitioners

Every instructor has 15+ years operating production systems — our lead instructor, Rajesh Kumar, has 20.

Build your own lab — not a sandbox

We teach you to provision a production-grade environment on your own AWS/Azure/GCP. It's the same skill you'll use day one on the job — and it goes with you when you leave.

100% demo-driven

Every session is a live demonstration in a working lab — never slides, never theory. You watch the instructor build it in real time, then you build it yourself.

Job-ready portfolio

You leave with 12 GitHub-ready projects you can show in interviews tomorrow.

# next cohort

Live cohorts — pick the track that fits your week.

Every cohort is capped at 10 learners by design. That's how the instructor still answers your real production questions in week 4 — not just the rehearsed ones from week 1.

Weekend cohort Most popular

Starts 1st of next month · Sat · Sun · 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM IST
  • 5 weekends · ~8 hrs/weekend live + self-paced
  • Designed for working professionals on IST/EST/GMT
  • Mentor office hours · Sunday 11 AM IST
  • Only 3 of 10 seats left
Reserve seat — ₹34,999

Weekday cohort

Starts 1st of next month · Mon · Wed · Fri · 8:00 – 10:00 PM IST
  • 5 weeks · ~12 hrs/week (live + self-paced)
  • Recorded same-day · always-available replay
  • Mentor office hours · Thursday 7 PM IST
  • Capped at 10 learners — small-batch by design
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# curriculum · DataOps-FC

Tool-by-tool. Live demos, not slides.

Each tool is taught as a working live demonstration inside a real lab environment — you see it built end-to-end before you build it yourself. The structure is identical for every tool, so you always know what's coming and what you'll have shipped by the end of the week.

5 hours
content per tool
(live + self-paced video)
2 assignments
per tool
graded with feedback
1 capstone
per tool
GitHub-public portfolio
3-hr exam
online · open-book
at the end of the program
01 DataOps Foundations — Culture, Principles & Data Lifecycle Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
DataOps vs DevOps vs MLOps, the DataOps manifesto (18 principles), data lifecycle management, data products thinking, and the DataOps maturity model.
  • Assignments: (1) map a data team workflow to the DataOps maturity model; (2) identify three toil-heavy manual data operations for automation
  • Capstone: produce a DataOps transformation roadmap for a data team with manual ETL processes
02 Data Pipeline Fundamentals — ETL, ELT & Streaming Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
ETL vs ELT patterns, batch vs streaming pipelines, Lambda vs Kappa architectures, pipeline idempotency, and data pipeline design patterns.
Capstone: design and build an ELT pipeline ingesting data from three sources into a data warehouse with automated scheduling.
03 Apache Airflow — Workflow Orchestration for Data Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Airflow DAG authoring, operators (PythonOperator, SQLOperator, SparkSubmitOperator), sensors, XComs, dynamic task mapping, retries, and SLAs for data pipelines.
Capstone: build a production-grade Airflow DAG orchestrating a daily data warehouse refresh with SLA monitoring.
04 dbt — Data Build Tool for Transformation Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
dbt project structure, models, sources, seeds, tests, documentation, lineage graphs, incremental models, and dbt Cloud vs dbt Core.
Capstone: build a full dbt project with 20+ models, tests, documentation, and lineage graph for a retail analytics use case.
05 Data Quality & Validation — Great Expectations & Soda Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Data quality dimensions (accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency), Great Expectations for data contract validation, Soda Core, and integrating quality checks into pipelines.
Capstone: define and automate data quality checks for a production dataset with alerting on quality degradation.
06 Data Versioning & Lineage — DVC & OpenLineage Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Dataset versioning with DVC, Delta Lake ACID transactions, data lineage with OpenLineage and Marquez, column-level lineage, and impact analysis for data changes.
Capstone: implement end-to-end data lineage tracking from raw ingestion to dashboard with OpenLineage.
07 Data Lakehouse Architecture — Delta Lake & Apache Iceberg Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Data lakehouse concepts, Delta Lake (ACID, time travel, schema evolution), Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and choosing the right table format for different use cases.
Capstone: build a data lakehouse on S3 with Delta Lake, implementing ACID transactions and time-travel queries.
08 Cloud Data Warehouses — Snowflake, BigQuery & Redshift Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Snowflake architecture (virtual warehouses, data sharing, zero-copy cloning), BigQuery partitioning/clustering, Redshift distribution keys, and cost optimisation across all three.
Capstone: migrate a sample dataset to all three cloud warehouses and benchmark query performance and cost.
09 CI/CD for Data Pipelines Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
DataOps CI/CD patterns, testing data pipelines (unit, integration, end-to-end), dbt test automation in GitHub Actions, pipeline blue-green deployments, and rollback strategies for data.
Capstone: build a full CI/CD pipeline for a dbt + Airflow data stack with automated tests and staging environment promotion.
10 Data Observability & Monitoring Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Data observability pillars (freshness, volume, distribution, schema, lineage), Monte Carlo basics, Grafana dashboards for pipeline health, SLA tracking, and anomaly detection for data.
Capstone: build a data observability stack monitoring five key data quality dimensions with automated alerting.
11 Data Governance & Security Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Data catalogues (Apache Atlas, DataHub, Alation), data classification, PII masking, GDPR / CCPA data subject rights, column-level access control, and data mesh governance.
Capstone: implement a data governance framework with cataloguing, PII detection, and automated access control policies.
12 Data Mesh & Self-Serve Data Platforms Live & Interactive5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone
Data mesh four principles (domain ownership, data as product, self-serve infrastructure, federated governance), data products design, and building a self-serve data platform.
Capstone: design and prototype a data mesh domain with a published data product, data contract, and SLA agreement.
Final certification exam2 hrs · online · multiple-choice
Scenario-based examination covering DataOps culture, pipeline orchestration, data quality, dbt, data versioning, cloud warehouses, CI/CD for data, and data governance. 60 questions, 75% pass mark.
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# your capstone portfolio

One capstone per tool. 12 GitHub-public artefacts you'll show in interviews.

Every tool you learn ends in a graded capstone project. By the end of the program you'll have a full portfolio of production-grade, employer-show-able work — sample capstones below.

CAPSTONE · PIPELINES
Airflow data warehouse refresh

Production-grade Airflow DAG orchestrating a daily ELT refresh from three sources with SLA monitoring.

AirflowdbtSnowflake
CAPSTONE · dbt
Retail analytics dbt project

20+ dbt models with tests, documentation, and lineage graph for a retail sales analytics use case.

dbtBigQueryGitHub Actions
CAPSTONE · QUALITY
Data quality automation

Great Expectations checks for five key quality dimensions with automated alerts on quality degradation.

Great ExpectationsAirflowSlack
CAPSTONE · LAKEHOUSE
Delta Lake on S3

Data lakehouse with ACID transactions, schema enforcement, time-travel queries, and partition pruning.

Delta LakeS3PySpark
CAPSTONE · CI/CD
CI/CD for dbt + Airflow stack

Full CI/CD pipeline with dbt test automation, Airflow DAG validation, and staging environment promotion gate.

GitHub ActionsdbtAirflow
CAPSTONE · GOVERNANCE
Data governance framework

DataHub catalogue + PII detection + column-level access control policies for a sample data platform.

DataHubApache AtlasSnowflake
# tools you'll master

20 data engineering tools you'll operate hands-on.

Apache Airflow
dbt
Great Expectations
Soda Core
DVC
Delta Lake
Snowflake
BigQuery
Redshift
OpenLineage
DataHub
Apache Atlas
Apache Iceberg
Apache Spark
GitHub Actions
Grafana
AWS S3
Azure Data Factory
Docker
Kubernetes
# the final exam

2 hours. Online. Multiple-choice. Built to test data engineering judgement.

The DataOps-FC examination is scenario-based, not a memorisation contest. 60 questions covering DataOps culture, pipeline orchestration, data quality, dbt, data versioning, cloud warehouses, CI/CD for data, and data governance. 75% pass mark.

3 hours
total duration
Online
from anywhere
Open-book
notes, docs, the LMS
Scenario-based
real engineering tasks

What it covers
  • Multi-part production scenarios that span the toolchain end-to-end
  • Pipeline design, IaC, configuration, containers, K8s, observability, security
  • Debugging exercises — given symptoms and logs, find the root cause
  • Written reasoning on trade-offs (e.g. blue/green vs canary, push vs pull GitOps)
Why open-book

In a real on-call shift you look things up. The exam mirrors that. We test the skill that actually matters — composing what you know into a working solution under time pressure. Memorising flag syntax wouldn't make you a better engineer.

Pass → certified.

Clear the exam and you'll be issued the DataOps-FC digital certificate within 5 working days, with a verifiable credential ID on our public registry.

  • Two free re-attempt windows if you don't clear first time
  • Detailed feedback report on every section
  • Mock papers + walkthrough during the program
  • Hard copy of the certificate on request
See the credential
# meet your instructor

You're not learning from a content team. You're learning from the person who built it.

RK

Rajesh Kumar

Principal DevOps Engineer and Architect
20 years · DevOps · SRE · Security Early-bird practitioner · MLOps · AIOps Ex-PayPay · SoftwareAG · ServiceNow · Adobe · Intuit · IBM · Accenture 10,000+ engineers trained M.Tech · BITS Pilani 25+ certifications

Rajesh is a working practitioner with 20 years across DevOps, SRE and Security, and an early-bird operator in MLOps and AIOps — he was already running model-deployment and telemetry-driven incident pipelines years before either term became industry vocabulary. He has held principal engineering and architect roles at PayPay, SoftwareAG, ServiceNow (Netherlands), JDA Software, Intuit, Adobe, IBM/Emptoris, Ness, MindTree and Accenture. He has personally trained engineers at JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Verizon, Nokia, World Bank, GE Healthcare, VMware, Citrix, Oracle, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Splunk, New Relic, Datadog, Airbus, AstraZeneca, Bosch, Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, Deloitte, EY, Capgemini, Infosys, Cognizant, HCL, Wipro and dozens more. He teaches what he runs — not what he reads.

# your credential

A certificate engineers actually recognise — and recruiters look for.

Every DataOps-FC certificate is issued with a unique credential ID, a tamper-proof QR code, and a verification URL on devopsschool.com/certificates. Add it to LinkedIn in one click.

  •   Lifetime verifiable on our public registry
  •   PDF + digital badge (Credly-compatible)
  •   Recognised by hiring partners across 50+ countries
  •   Hard copy shipped on request — order here
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Certificate of completion
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# what learners say

4.8 / 5 from 2,300+ engineers. Here's what a few of them said.

# pricing

Pick the level of support that fits your goal.

Every plan includes the full curriculum, recorded sessions, and access to our learner community.

Every plan includes 1 year of full DevOpsSchool LMS access.
Not just this one course — the entire LMS: 20+ courses, 50+ tools, videos, quizzes, assignments, and end-to-end projects. Worth ₹40,000+ on its own.
See what's in the LMS
Self-paced video ₹833 / month · billed yearly (₹9,996) All recorded sessions, labs & the full LMS — learn at your own pace.
  • Full 100+ hour recorded curriculum
  • 12 hands-on capstones on your own cloud lab (free-tier setup walkthrough included)
  • 1-year access — recordings, labs & updates
  • 3-hr online open-book exam
  • Industry-recognised certificate on completion
  • Lifetime forum support
  • Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
  • Live instructor classes
  • 1-on-1 mentor sessions
Get self-paced — ₹833/mo
1-on-1 Mentorship ₹99,999 full program Dedicated senior practitioner. Pace, schedule and labs tailored to you.
  • Everything in Live & Interactive
  • Private 1-on-1 instructor (your schedule)
  • Custom curriculum & labs for your stack
  • Resume & LinkedIn review
  • Mock interview & salary negotiation prep
  • Capstone & portfolio code review
  • Priority response from instructor
  • Lifetime forum support
  • Full LMS access — 20+ courses & 50+ tools
Enrol 1-on-1 — ₹99,999
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# why us

Why engineers pick DevOpsSchool over the alternatives.

Not slides. Not a 500-seat MOOC. Not a temporary sandbox login. Three things make the difference — then compare us line-by-line.

100% live demo. 0% slides.

Every session is the instructor screen-sharing a real working lab and building the thing in front of you — then you build it yourself. No PowerPoint, no "imagine if…".

You build your own lab.

We guide you through provisioning a free-tier AWS / Azure / GCP environment on day one — the same skill you'll use at work. A temporary sandbox login disappears the day the cohort ends. Your own lab doesn't.

10 learners. By design.

Cohorts are capped at 10 by design. The instructor still knows your name in week 4 — and still has time to debug the weird production thing you brought from work.

What matters YouTube + blogs Generic online course Boot camp DevOpsSchool DataOps-FC
Teaching method You piece it together yourself Pre-recorded talking-head + slides Mix of slides & some labs Live demos in a real lab — every session
Cohort size 1 (you, alone) Hundreds to thousands 30–60 per batch 10 by design — instructor knows your name
Lab environment None Throwaway sandbox Shared sandbox login Your own AWS/Azure/GCP, guided setup
Per-tool structure Ad-hoc Inconsistent across modules Theme-based, varies wildly 5 hrs · 2 assignments · 1 capstone for every tool
Final assessment None Multiple-choice quiz Mini-project 3-hour open-book scenario exam
Portfolio at the end What you built solo 1–2 generic toy projects 1 capstone 1 capstone per tool — GitHub-public
Instructor pedigree Mixed (creator-economy) Mixed (often academic) Recent-grad TAs common Rajesh Kumar — 20 yrs, ex-PayPay/ServiceNow/Adobe
Cohort start cadence N/A — pure self-pace Self-paced only Quarterly windows New cohort every 1st of the month
Post-program support None Drip-fed retention emails 30–90 day Slack Lifetime forum + alumni community
LMS bundled No This one course only This program only 1 year full LMS — 20+ courses, 50+ tools
Refund posture N/A Vendor-specific, often none after start Usually none after week 1 100% within 15 days if we cancel
Total cost (full program) Free, slow ₹15K – ₹50K per single course ₹80K – ₹3L+ ₹34,999 · LMS + lifetime forum included

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# frequently asked

Everything you'd ask on a 1-on-1 call.

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Do I need prior DevOps or coding experience?
A working knowledge of Linux command line and basic Git is enough. We'll bring you up to speed on everything else from Module 1. About 30% of every cohort enters from a sysadmin / dev / QA background.
What if I miss a live class?
Every session is recorded and shared with the cohort within 24 hours. You retain access to the recordings and lab repositories for the duration of the cohort and a defined access window after it. Specific access duration is confirmed at enrolment.
How does the certificate work? Is it accredited?
We issue a DevOpsSchool-credentialed digital certificate plus a verifiable badge. Each certificate has a unique credential ID and a public verification URL. While it isn't a vendor exam like AWS or CNCF, every cohort includes coaching toward those external exams as a track-add.
Can I pay in instalments / EMI?
Yes — 3, 6, and 12-month plans are available via our payment partners with 0% interest on the 3-month option. We also support employer invoicing.
What's the refund policy?
Once a training cohort is confirmed, the seat is generally non-refundable. The exception is when we cancel or postpone — instructor unavailability, low enrolment, or force majeure — in which case you receive a 100% refund within 15 working days, or you can join the rescheduled cohort. GST and payment-gateway fees are not refunded. Full details on the refund policy page.
Do you give us a cloud sandbox, or do we set one up?
We do it the way you'll do it on the job — you provision your own AWS / Azure / GCP lab, and we walk you through the free-tier setup step-by-step before module 1 starts. Most labs run at zero out-of-pocket. The point is that the skill of owning your infrastructure goes with you forever; a sandbox login disappears the day the cohort ends.
Do you offer corporate or team enrolments?
Yes — private cohorts for teams of 8+ are our most-requested format. We can run them on your schedule, in your VPC, against your internal toolchain. Request a quote.
What time-zones do the live cohorts run in?
Default schedule is IST-friendly, but the weekend cohort works for EST/CET/GMT engineers as well. Recordings cover the rest. We also run a North America-specific cohort every quarter — ask us for the calendar.
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