Take your systems administration or application development career to the cloud.

Build on the information technology management and software development skills that you already have through the Cloud Development and Operations Ontario College Graduate Certificate program. Learn to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions using the latest cloud-native tools. This program prepares you to meet the mounting demand for cloud computing professionals across all industries in both the public and private sectors. You benefit from the experience of faculty as you prepare for industry-recognized certifications in various cloud computing career paths.

Through authentic industry problems from industry advisors, you gain experience choosing between public-cloud, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud architectures. Practise migrating legacy applications and their data to new cloud hosted environments. Build highly available solutions that balance security and data privacy needs with time-to-market agility and cost-efficiency. Employing industry best practices, you compose containerized microservices, serverless functions, redundant message queues, and managed cloud database services to create full-stack cloud-native application solutions. Learn to manage infrastructure as code using open source and cloud platform-specific tools to automate many DevOps tasks like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, performance and compliance monitoring, and security audits.

Build industry relationships while completing an applied project for a real-world client. You integrate the technical knowledge and experience gained throughout the program and demonstrate your leadership and communications skills. Graduates are well prepared to complete recognized industry certifications including:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• AWS Certified Developer
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Cloud computing skills are in-demand across most industry sectors, including retail, transportation, media, gaming, health care, and more. Upon graduation you may find employment in software development, DevOps, or professional services. You may work with small start-ups, established companies or governments of all levels.

To qualify for this graduate certificate, you must complete the program in four years.

SUCCESS FACTORS

This program is well-suited for students who:

• Have prior programming experience.
• Enjoy solving complex problems, with an ability to think critically and outside-the-box.
• Are curious and inquisitive.
• Are well-organized.
• Are comfortable communicating with groups of peers in professional settings.
• Have the ability to professionally lead and collaborate to achieve team deliverables.
• Are able to translate design models to implementation details.
• Value lifelong learning.

Careers

Graduates of the program may pursue opportunities as cloud architects, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers and/or cloud developers.

Pathways

Please use our Pathways tool to search for pathway options.

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

1. Create an appropriate architectural design to support the client's secure virtual infrastructure and application development needs.
2. Select and deploy appropriate cloud environments to support a variety of workloads in a rapidly changing business environment.
3. Design and implement highly-available and elastically-scalable solutions within cloud computing platforms to maximize the reliability and resiliency of application services.
4. Integrate and automate development and operations processes to enhance business innovation and agility with consistently reliable solutions within an established policy framework.
5. Evaluate and integrate industry best practice recommendations into the design and development of secure cloud-based solutions to protect the privacy and integrity of client data.
6. Evaluate the full cost implications of various cloud solution options to find an optimal cost/benefit balance for an organization.
7. Assess and implement policy monitoring and compliance strategies and tools to ensure all deployed cloud-based solutions adhere to relevant regulatory, governance and legal requirements.
8. Apply collaborative project management principles to identify, track and effectively communicate project goals, costs, constraints and deliverables, that support successful project outcomes.
9. Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.

Application Information

CLOUD DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS
Program Code 1531X07PAO

Applications to Grad Cert Part-time programs must be submitted via our online application form at algonquincollege.com/online/part-time-graduate-certificate-application-form.

Prior to starting your application, please ensure that you have consulted the program admission requirements and have all the supporting documentation in a digital format ready to be uploaded.

Applications submitted in a paper form or via email will not be accepted and incomplete applications will not be processed.

Applications will typically be processed within 2-3 weeks, but can take longer during peak times and at the start of academic terms. Applicants are encouraged to apply at least 4-6 weeks prior to the start of term.

Program Resources

This program is also offered full-time online and full-time on campus.

International students wishing to study online should visit https://www.algonquincollege.com/online/international/ for information related to International online students and for International fees information prior to registering. Please note that AC Online programs do not qualify international students for new study permits or study permit extensions.

AC ONLINE ACADEMIC PLANNER:
The Academic Planner provides registered part-time students the ability to declare into a program of study. The Academic Planner outlines successfully completed courses to date, as well as courses that need to be completed in order to meet graduation requirements. It is therefore, essential that all part-time students declare to their program of study, allowing administrators to plan course offerings. The tool is available on ACSIS, located under 'Part-time Students' on the left-hand toolbar.

PRIOR LEARNING AND RECOGNITION (PLAR):
Students who wish to apply for PLAR need to demonstrate competency at a post-secondary level in all of the course learning requirements. Evidence of learning achievements for PLAR candidates may include a comprehensive challenge examination and/or completion of a portfolio.

PROGRAM PROGRESSON:
As per policy AA39: Program Progression and Graduation Requirements when students are admitted to a program, they are assigned to the Program of Study that aligns with their start date. If a student takes a break for two or more consecutive terms the Program of Study is reset to align with the current version (when studies are resumed). For more information please contact your Program Support Officer (https://www.algonquincollege.com./academic-success/ac-online/).

Future Students

For additional information, please contact our Customer Service Representative team at online@algonquincollege.com and they will direct you to the best person to answer your specific questions.

Current Students

For additional information, please reference the AC Online Circle of Care.