Achieving Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional certification validates your technical expertise in provisioning, operating and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. It confirms your ability to:

• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS.
• Understand, implement and automate security controls, governance processes and compliance validation.
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics and logging systems on AWS.
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable and self-healing on the AWS platform.
• Design, manage and maintain tools to automate operational processes.

AWS Knowledge and Experience

• AWS services: compute and networking, storage and content delivery, database, analytics, application services, and deployment and management.
• At least two years of hands-on experience with production of AWS systems.
• Effective use of Auto Scaling.
• Monitoring and logging.
• AWS security features and best practices.
• Design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services.
• Techniques and strategies for maintaining high availability.

General IT Knowledge and Experience

• Networking concepts.
• Strong system administration (Linux/UNIX or Windows).
• Strong scripting skill set.
• Multitier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases and networking.
• Templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
• Deployment tools and techniques in a distributed environment.
• Basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment.