Course introduction
The Salesforce DevOps Leadership Certification is your next step in becoming an impactful DevOps leader. Designed for Salesforce professionals already leading — or aspiring to lead — DevOps organizations, this course blends strategic thinking with practical know-how. You’ll gain a deep understanding of transformational leadership in a DevOps context, along with the tools to guide your team through DevOps adoption and long-term success.
This DevOps leader course will equip you with everything you need to implement DevOps practices effectively, measure performance, and address the real-world challenges that come with leading DevOps evolution.
Who is the DevOps Leadership Certification for?
Admins, Developers, Team Leaders
Whether you’re already a DevOps practitioner organizing workflows or stepping into a leadership role for the first time, this certification is for Salesforce professionals seeking to develop their leadership skills in DevOps. If you’re responsible for leading DevOps initiatives, shaping your team’s direction, or supporting DevOps transformation at scale, this is the course for you.
What you’ll achieve in the DevOps Leadership Certification
- Refresh and expand your Salesforce DevOps knowledge
- Build the leadership skills to guide a successful DevOps transformation
- Understand how to assess and improve DevOps performance
- Learn how to navigate common DevOps adoption challenges
- Become a certified DevOps leader with a clear understanding of successful team dynamics, performance metrics, and organizational design
What the DevOps Leadership Certification includes
The Salesforce DevOps Leadership Certification goes beyond technical understanding — it equips you with the leadership mindset and strategic tools for successfully leading DevOps transformation in a Salesforce context. Through the DevOps leadership modules, you’ll:
- Strengthen your practical understanding of what it means to be a DevOps leader — You’ll explore how to apply transformational leadership principles to real-world Salesforce DevOps challenges, from building a strong DevOps culture to driving continuous improvement in performance.
- Gain the confidence to lead DevOps teams and initiatives at scale — Learn how to align people, processes, and tools around shared goals. Develop a leadership approach that fosters collaboration, improves organizational design, and supports long-term DevOps adoption.
- Learn how to measure and improve DevOps success in your organization — Master performance management techniques including value stream mapping, DORA metrics, and risk-based governance and compliance to ensure your team is consistently delivering value to the business.
- Build your leadership credibility with a formal certification — By passing the DevOps leader exam, you’ll become a certified DevOps leader — ready to lead transformational change and support the evolution of DevOps practices in your organization.
- Unlock lifetime access to up-to-date, expert-led training — With permanent access to the modules, you can revisit the leadership strategies, DevOps culture frameworks, and governance approaches whenever you need to refresh or evolve your leadership toolkit.
DevOps Leadership Certification content
Revisiting DevOps fundamentals
You’ll start by grounding yourself in the fundamentals of implementing DevOps in a Salesforce context — exploring common DevOps terminology, core concepts, and the DevOps spectrum of maturity models across organizations.
Building high-performing DevOps teams
Understand what makes a strong DevOps culture and how to create the conditions for high performance. Explore different leadership approaches, modern IT leadership styles, and organizational design techniques that support agile environments and long-term DevOps adoption.
Assessing DevOps performance
Discover how to measure your team’s success through key DevOps metrics. Learn how to apply performance management techniques like DORA metrics — deployment frequency, lead time for changes, mean time to recover, and change failure rate — to drive continuous improvement.
DevOps governance
Explore governance as a cornerstone of your DevOps leadership approach. Learn how to manage risk, ensure compliance, and prioritize business value. You’ll also gain insight into when and how to establish a Salesforce Center of Excellence or target operating model.
Addressing DevOps adoption challenges
From resistance to change to unclear goals, DevOps transformation can be complex. This module gives you the tools to lead change effectively, navigate cultural and organizational hurdles, and guide your DevOps organization through periods of growth and evolution.
Final assessment
You’ll complete the course with the DevOps Leader exam, designed to test your knowledge of the core concepts, strategies, and leadership skills covered across all modules. Pass the assessment and you’ll receive your Salesforce DevOps Leadership Certificate — proof that you’re a certified DevOps leader.
What our students say about the DevOps Leadership Certification
The Leadership Certification offered a strategic lens on process improvement, stakeholder alignment, and team enablement — helping me streamline operations and drive measurable impact across our delivery pipeline.”
Sipra Sahu, Senior Salesforce Developer
Meet the course creator
Rob Cowell is a Salesforce DevOps Advocate at Gearset. He uses his wealth of experience as a Salesforce developer and architect to guide and advise on best practice for Salesforce DevOps. He has gained a unique insight into Salesforce trends and challenges over the years, using this to help organizations of all shapes and sizes optimize their Salesforce processes. Alongside his day job, he is an active part of the Salesforce community, providing support and sharing experiences to help others thrive. He is also 10x Salesforce certified and the author of Salesforce DevOps for Architects.
Other DevOps Launchpad courses you might be interested in
- Salesforce DevOps Fundamentals Certificate
- Assessing and improving DevOps performance
- Building a Salesforce Center of Excellence
FAQs
What is DevOps Launchpad?
DevOps Launchpad is a free training platform packed with courses and resources for anyone in the Salesforce ecosystem looking to upskill in Salesforce DevOps.
The certifications, courses, and quizzes on DevOps Launchpad are curated by experts in the field from Gearset, the leading DevOps platform for Salesforce. But the majority of content on DevOps Launchpad is all vendor-neutral, and useful for anyone learning more about Salesforce DevOps.
Who is DevOps Launchpad for?
Anyone involved in any aspect of the build, test and release cycle for Salesforce – it doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the ecosystem or more experienced in Salesforce development.
Our courses are designed to upskill everyone in DevOps, regardless of role. Whether you’re an admin, a developer, an ISV partner or a technical architect, there’s something here for you.
How do I complete courses and get certificates?
DevOps Launchpad courses are broken down into modules. To finish a module, you usually complete a quiz to test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions. Once you finish all the modules in a course, you’ll earn a certificate which can be downloaded and saved to your resume, or shared on your social profiles.
Our certification tracks provide the opportunity to earn official certifications to demonstrate your DevOps prowess, by completing a number of courses in a guided learning pathway. You can learn more about certification tracks below.
How do I navigate the platform?
Click the Courses tab to see the courses and certification tracks that you’ve enrolled for. This page will be blank until you choose courses in the library. If you want to return to a course in progress or one that you’ve previously completed, head to this page.
The Results tab shows your progress through the courses you’ve completed, including any certifications and test results. It’s a great way to track your learning journey and see the skills you’re building.
The Library is where you can browse courses and enrol to continue building your skillset. Once you enrol for a course, it’ll be added to your courses page and you can start working through it.
How do I access my account?
You can access DevOps Launchpad in different ways:
- The DevOps Launchpad homepage
- Direct login
- For Gearset users: click the DevOps Launchpad icon in the Gearset app
How are certifications different from other courses?
Certifications are guided learning pathways which are made up of a set of DevOps Launchpad courses. For some certification tracks, you can choose to take courses individually or as part of a track, but you’ll only earn the track certificate if you’ve completed all the component courses.
I’ve signed up to the DevOps Leadership Certification but I can’t see all the component courses
Courses will appear one by one on your Courses page, with a rosette icon top left to indicate that they’re part of a certification track. Once you’ve completed a course, the next one will appear, and so on until you reach the final assessment. You’ll need to pass the final assessment to complete the certification.
Do I have to complete the DevOps Leadership Certification all in one go?
No, you can take modules and courses in your own time. Your progress will be saved, so you can come back whenever suits your schedule!
Do I get certificates for individual courses?
You will receive a certificate for each course that you complete. After you have completed all the courses and the final assessment, you will be awarded the official final certification.
What if I’ve already completed some of the courses on the DevOps Leadership Certification?
DevOps Launchpad will register that you’ve already completed the course and jump to the next course in the track. If you’ve already completed all the component courses, you’ll jump straight to the final assessment. Even if you’ve completed all the component courses, you’ll need to pass the final assessment before gaining your certification.