FinOps Certified Training Providers offer training for individuals to become FinOps Certified Practitioners.
FinOps Certified Training Providers must employ a FinOps Certified Training Instructor to deliver the training. To become a FinOps Certified Training Instructor, one must prove their expertise by meeting a number of additional requirements from the FinOps Foundation.
Why get certified?
Validate your offer: Customers may be more likely to purchase FinOps training from a provider that has been certified by the FinOps Foundation and uses FinOps Foundation content.
Marketing: If your organization becomes a FinOps Certified Training Provider, your public classes can be listed on the FinOps Foundation Events page, and this designation will be displayed on your Member Page and on the FinOps Landscape.
Training Materials: You will have access to FinOps Certified Practitioner training materials during the day of the training class
Lead generation: Incorporate your other FinOps offerings into the training classes to drive leads for those resources, products, and/or services.
Certification Requirements
To become a FinOps Certified Training Provider, your organization must meet these requirements:.
- Be a General or Premier Member of the FinOps Foundation, and a Member of the Linux Foundation
- Sign a FinOps Certified Training Partner Contract
- Obtain adequate individual certifications within your company
- Employ a FinOps Certified Training Instructor to conduct the training classes
Individual Certification Requirements
A number of individuals in your organization must achieve the FinOps Certified Practitioner certification in order for your organization to become a FinOps Certified Training Provider. The number is based on your company size. For example, if your organization has 1200 people in it, then you need at least 35 individuals—who are actively working at the company—who have each achieved the FinOps Certified Practitioner certification. Note that one FinOps Certified Professional counts for five FinOps Certified Practitioners.
| Company Size | FinOps Certified Practitioners Required |
|---|---|
| 0-99 | 3 |
| 100-499 | 10 |
| 500-4999 | 35 |
| 5000+ | 50 |
The Company Size is determined by the parent organization size (which was used for defining your fee structure when you joined the Linux Foundation). Employee count is not based on the individual business unit. For example, a 100-person product team that is part of a 1500-person organization would fall into the 500-4999 tier, not the 100-499 tier.
FinOps Certified Instructor Requirements
FinOps Certified Training Providers must employ a FinOps Certified Training Instructor to deliver the training. To become a FinOps Certified Instructor, you must:
- Be a individual FinOps Foundation community participant
- Have at least 12 months of experience as a FinOps Practitioner or related experience
- Have a valid FinOps Certified Practitioner certification
- Have valid FinOps Certified Professional certification
- Hold at least one Practitioner-level cert from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. (We recommend AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials, Google Cloud Digital Leader, and Azure Fundamentals learning path.)
- Have experience speaking in public about FinOps or related areas
- Be employed by a FinOps Certified Training Provider
Please contact training@finops.org to start the certification process.
