IBM Hybrid Cloud Architect

Build the job-ready hybrid cloud architect skills businesses need in just 3 months. This IBM Professional Certificate gives software developers, IT support specialists, network engineers and other ambitious IT professionals the end-to-end skills to plan, design, and operate secure, scalable hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. Hybrid cloud architects design and manage systems that connect on-premise infrastructure with public and private cloud environments to ensure seamless, secure, and scalable operations. In this program, you'll build sought-after skills for cloud networking (VPCs, VPNs, private links), storage and data management (object/block/file; HA databases; DR/BCP), and cloud-native practices (containers, Kubernetes, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps). You'll learn to strengthen systems analysis , requirements, stakeholder management , and business process modeling to align architecture with real business needs. Plus, you’ll develop operations and SRE capabilities with SLIs/SLOs , error budgets , and observability with metrics, logs, and tracing. You’ll also learn to apply Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible) to automate builds, rollbacks, and recovery. And implement security and compliance with IAM , encryption , zero-trust , and mappings to SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA . Enroll now and power up your tech career with the hybrid cloud architect skills hiring managers are looking for!

• Develop practical hybrid cloud architect skills
• Apply Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native practices to deploy secure apps
• Design hybrid multi-cloud solutions integrating networking, storage, and recovery
• Complete a capstone project on infrastructure automation and security

• Basic familiarity with topic and terminology
• Readiness for practical applied exercises