Red Hat Certification
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect
A Red Hat® Certified OpenShift Architect is a Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator or a Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application Developer who has attained our highest level of certification by earning-and keeping current-five or more additional certifications focused on OpenShift and related application development technologies. While there is some overlap with the Red Hat Certified Architect certification, this is a new program with new requirements and a specific focus on OpenShift.
Certification details
Candidate Guidance
DevOps and cloud-native applications blur the lines between administrator and developer roles such that the skills and abilities required can, and do, overlap depending on many factors including the environment, the organization and individual use cases. For that reason, the Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect credential does not distinguish between the developer and admin roles. Instead, both Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrators and Red Hat OpenShift Certified Application Developers choose their five additional qualifying certifications from the same list of eligible certifications.
Exams
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in API Management (3scale)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Building Resilient Microservices (ServiceMesh)
- Red Hat Certified Cloud-native Developer (Quarkus)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Cloud-native Integration (Fuse)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Data Foundation
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Multi Cluster Management
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift AI
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in ROSA
Expect this list to grow as the capabilities of OpenShift as an application platform continue to expand.
*Note: If you have earned either Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator or Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application Developer then taking the other base certification counts as one of the five certifications required. For example, if you have earned Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator and then also earn Red Hat OpenShift Certified Application Developer, you will only need to complete four of the exams listed above to become a Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect.