Azure DevOps Engineer Career Path (AZ-104 → AZ-204 → AZ-400)
The Azure DevOps Engineer bridges development and operations — automating how software is built, tested, released, and monitored. With CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability, DevOps engineers help teams ship faster and more reliably. It's a high-demand, high-pay role, and here's the path to it.
Who this path is for
Best for administrators or developers who like automation and tooling. Comfort with either operations (AZ-104) or coding (AZ-204) is the ideal starting point; strong candidates learn both.
The certification path
1. AZ-104 — Azure Administrator
Understand the platform you'll automate: identity, compute, networking, and storage. (New to Azure? Start with our AZ-900 guide first.)
2. AZ-204 — Developing Solutions for Azure
Learn to build and deploy cloud apps — App Service, Functions, containers, Cosmos DB, authentication, and APIs. DevOps automates delivery of exactly these workloads.
3. AZ-400 — Designing and Implementing DevOps
The expert certification. Build CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), release strategies, security, and monitoring/feedback loops across the delivery lifecycle.
Skills you'll gain
- CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as Code (Bicep / Terraform / ARM)
- Containers and Kubernetes (AKS) release workflows
- Automated testing, secrets management, and secure pipelines
- Monitoring, logging, and continuous feedback
Jobs this path leads to
- DevOps Engineer
- Platform Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Release / Build Engineer
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