The DevOps Transformation Coach inspires teams and individuals with thought-provoking and creative processes. The core focus of the DevOps Transformation Coach is to enable and sustain the DevOps transformation. The DevOps Transformation Coach drives performance and is a catalyst for change, for individuals, teams and the organization.

DevOps Transformation Coaches comprehend the essence of DevOps and how to coach teams in adopting DevOps principles or overcoming challenges. DevOps Transformation Coaches are familiar with various coaching models and instruments and are able to apply the best model for the organization and people at any point in time. The DevOps Transformation Coach has become a critical role in driving DevOps success and organizational performance as DevOps requires a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, and ways of working.

Like all other hyper-growth trends in the IT industry, the adoption of DevOps is not immune to potential misunderstandings and misconceptions. Besides relevant tooling and technology, DevOps predominantly entails a cultural shift towards a new mindset, behaviors, a new organization, and a new way of working.

DevOps Transformation Coaches within organizations make remarkable contributions on the ground in developing team members and teams into high performing teams with a new mindset, behaviors, organization, and a way of working. The objective of the Coach is to help teams develop their DevOps skills, knowledge, and behavior in order to rapidly become self-sufficient and fully leverage the benefits of DevOps.

Coaches promote and facilitate teams that make them more competent and fulfilled so that they are proficient to contribute to their organization and find meaning in DevOps adoption. As a coach, you help to speed up delivery in teams, create more transparency, and build a continuous improvement mindset. At the Organization level, you provide strategic coaching and help organizations achieve their transformation goals.

The role of DevOps Transformation Coach can be temporary or permanent, depending on the organization’s needs. Larger businesses might want to keep a DevOps Transformation Coach on staff to help oversee the sustained transformation on a long term basis, but the position is typically temporary or contracted. For most businesses, especially midsize and small organizations, it’s more useful to hire a DevOps Transformation Coach on a contract basis to help get jump start the DevOps Adoption and Transformation efforts.

Part of [the job] for DevOps Transformation Coaches is leveraging experience and teaching the basics to bring people up to speed with a DevOps culture and mindset. Since some employees might be unfamiliar with DevOps, it’s important to focus on the fundamentals and to make the DevOps framework accessible to everyone.

As a DevOps Coach, you’ll need to have strong communication and interpersonal skills, since you’ll be working closely with employees across the entire company, including leadership. Chances are, you’ll find it difficult to convert some workers to the DevOps mindset and cultural shift. In these instances, you’ll need to know how to navigate the corporate culture to help the organization realize its goals.

A good coach knows how to work with the team and the leadership to change the environment. Managers and management is often quietly resistant to agile because it fundamentally challenges their power and control. The coach works with the leadership to see the future and be patient along the journey. The coach also works with the team to help them transform to being self-managing and accountable. These are big changes.

Most common responsibilities for a DevOps Transformation Coach include:

• Encourages employees and stakeholders buy-in
• Collaborates on the creation and evolution of the DevOps Transformation road-map and owns driving activities across the organization
• Supports development and monitoring of DevOps adoption/maturity metrics to aid in accelerating overall DevOps Transformation efforts and to gauge the maturity progress of new and existing teams
• Helps define and ensure consistent DevOps standards and best practices in alignment with the organization’s vision
• Advances best practices for expanding DevOps to various Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, IBM, etc)
• Develops and monitors metrics to track progress of DevOps adoption and maturity to aid in accelerating overall DevOps transformation efforts
• Develops training materials and deliver across the organization
• Provides individual DevOps Coaching to delivery team members, managers, executives, and other employees throughout the company
• Participates, organizes, facilitates communities of practice to help foster lean and agile thinking Mentors Agile delivery teams, their coaches, stakeholders and leaders to help them adopt the mindset and practices needed to aid DevOps Transformation the organization
• Educates the team on the best use of DevOps tools
• Helps platform teams drive towards platform automation
• Fosters teamwork and adherence to norms

DevOps Transformation Coaches earn between $125/Hour to $250/Hour ($237,500 to $475,000 annually) if they work on a contract basis. DevOps Transformation Coaches with Developer and/or Architect background can earn upto even $300/Hour if they work on a contract basis. For full time employees, earnings between $135,000 and $300,000 with benefits is prevalent within the US. Demand for DevOps Coaches is expected to rise much faster than other IT roles and even other Coaching roles. Experience, training and certifications, location, and industry are several factors that would impact expected earnings of Agile Coaches.

DevOps Transformation Coaches do work in one or more of the following roles:

• DevOps Coach
• Enterprise DevOps Coach
• DevOps Transformation Coach
• Technical Coach
• DevOps Lead

Past participants of our Certified DevOps Transformation Coach training program came from variety of industries, including healthcare, banking, finance, credit card issuers, retail, oil and gas, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, communication and internet, energy, computer manufacturers, consulting firms, credit bureaus, network manufacturers, software, hardware, government organizations, satellite manufacturers, credit unions, and oil refineries to name several. Here are few of the 140+ organizations that our past participants represented:

Walmart, Kroger, Target, Accenture, USAA, Shell, ExxonMobil, Citibank, Master Card, Visa, Duke Energy, Bank of America, IBM, FedEx, Aetna, Anthem, CVS, Walgreens, Tesla, Verizon, Infosys, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, CapitalOne, USPS, US Bank, Blackrock, CBRE, TD Ameritrade, Wipro, Micron, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Discover, Chevron, Ford, HP, Allstate, State Farm, Desjardins, Petrobras, Enterprise, US Coast Guard, US Department of State, UHG, FDA, SAIC, BCBS, HCSC, PepsiCo, Dell

We at Chicago State University offer several career enhancing training programs for DevOps Transformation Coaches. DevOps Transformation Coaches can pursue to attend one or more of the following training offered by us:

1. Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF)
2. Certified Agility Coach (CAC)
3. Certified Agile Transformation Coach (CATC)
4. Certified Enterprise Agility Coach (CEAC)
5. Certified Business Agility Coach (CBAC)
6. Certified Agile Leadership Professional (CALP)
7. Certified Agile Change Practitioner (CACP)

Enterprise Agility Coaches can earn a Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (MCAM) by completing training programs 1-4 in addition to Certified DevOps Transformation Coach (CDTC) training. They can further their advancement by earning Advanced Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (AMCAM) by completing training programs 5–7. Both the Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (MCAM) and the Advanced Master’s Certificate in Agile Management (AMCAM) are the first and only such programs in the world!