Red Hat Enhances Certification Program for Open Source Experts

Red Hat (RHT) has beefed up its certification and training programs for open source software. Now, the company is offering new Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) concentrations focused on clouds, data centers and applications related to its Linux-based solutions.

The concentrations allow engineers and systems administrators to acquire and demonstrate expertise in open source software through a flexible path that they configure. To earn the RHCA title in each of the three concentrations—cloud, data centers and applications—on which the offering focuses, participants must choose five specific areas on which to concentrate, and obtain certification for each associated skill set.

Examples of subject areas included within each of the concentrations are security, auditing/debugging and virtualization for the data center concentration, and hybrid cloud, private cloud and OpenShift enterprise for the cloud concentration.

The new certification offering expands upon Red Hat’s existing certification program, and is designed to meet increasing demand for expertise in the three open source niches on which the concentrations center, according to the company.

“Technology professionals with data center, cloud, application platform and open source software skills are in demand,” Ken Goetz, VP of Worldwide Training at Red Hat, said in a statement. “Our new Red Hat Certified Architect concentrations are built to address this demand. Most importantly, they allow technology professionals to position themselves as experts on Red Hat’s leading open source software solutions.”

The announcement comes amid additional updates by Red Hat to its certification and training initiatives. The company said it is also revamping the RHCA program in other ways to provide more flexibility, and “implementing some policy changes that will acknowledge and differentiate Red Hat Certified Professionals who are current.”