At Algonquin College in Ottawa, Canada, PGCert in Cloud Development and Operations is offered as a postgraduate certificate in Cloud Computing & DevOps programme. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 9,570 per semester (CAD 3,102 per semester for local students).
At a glance
Degree:Postgraduate Certificate
Field:Cloud Computing & DevOps
Duration: 2 semesters
Delivery: On Campus
Language: English
Local tuition: CAD 3,102 / semester
International tuition: CAD 9,570 / semester
Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed September 2026 ·
Program details
Overview
Overview Take your systems administration or application development career to the cloud. Build on the information technology management and software development skills that you already have through the one-year Cloud Development and Operations Ontario College Graduate Certificate program. Learn to design, build, and manage secure, scalable, and cost-effective solutions using the latest cloud-native tools. This program prepares you to meet the mounting demand for cloud computing professionals across all industries in both the public and private sectors. You benefit from the experience of faculty as you prepare for industry-recognized certifications in various cloud computing career paths. Through authentic industry problems from industry advisors, you gain experience choosing between public-cloud, private-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud architectures. Practise migrating legacy applications and their data to new cloud hosted environments. Build highly available solutions that balance security and data privacy needs with time-to-market agility and cost-efficiency. Employing industry best practices, you compose containerized microservices, serverless functions, redundant message queues, and managed cloud database services to create full-stack cloud-native application solutions. Learn to manage infrastructure as code using open source and cloud platform-specific tools to automate many DevOps tasks like continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, performance and compliance monitoring, and security audits. Build industry relationships while completing an applied project for a real-world client. You integrate the technical knowledge and experience gained throughout the program and demonstrate your leadership and communications skills. Graduates are well prepared to complete recognized industry certifications including: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Certified Developer AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate Cloud computing skills are in-demand across most industry sectors, including retail, transportation, media, gaming, health care, and more. Upon graduation you may find employment in software development, DevOps, or professional services. You may work with small start-ups, established companies or governments of all levels.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This postgraduate certificate requires an Ontario College Diploma, Advanced Diploma or degree in Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications/Networking, IT/IS Security or Computer Engineering (or equivalent) with demonstrated programming, database and scripting skills; or a diploma/degree in any field plus at least three years of relevant IT/IS, networking or technical-support experience, assessed individually via an Eligibility Package. English: IELTS Academic 6.5 overall with no band under 6.0; TOEFL iBT 88 overall with 22 in each of reading, listening, speaking and writing for tests sat before 21 January 2026, or 4.5 overall with 4.5 in every component for tests sat after that date; or a Duolingo English Test score of 120 overall with 120 in Literacy and nothing under 105. Applicants presenting international transcripts, or domestic applicants holding international ones, must have them assessed by the International Credential Assessment Service of Canada (ICAS) or World Education Services (WES).
Application Details
Start Date:Intake terms Algonquin lists for this program, read from its own availability table on 6 September 2026: Fall 2026 (AC Day 1 orientation 8 September 2026; Fall term classes start 9 September 2026); Winter 2027 (most classes start 11 January 2027). Term start dates come from the Registrar's Important Dates page, which also gives 11 January 2027 for the Winter 2027 term and 10 May 2027 for the Spring 2027 term. Availability changes as seats fill and an intake already under way may be closed, so check the program page before applying. Algonquin's academic year runs September to August.
Application Deadline:DOMESTIC APPLICANTS (Canadian citizens and permanent residents). Algonquin publishes no deadline unique to this program; the dates below are the college-wide Ontario colleges cycle and apply to every full-time day program. Applications go through ontariocolleges.ca, where 1 February is the equal consideration date each cycle: apply by then and your application is assessed alongside every other one received by that date, while applications arriving later are handled first-come, first-served for as long as places remain. For entry in Fall 2027 the ontariocolleges.ca application opened on 26 September 2026, colleges may begin issuing offers on 1 November 2026, the equal consideration date is 1 February 2027 and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. The equal consideration date that governed the Fall 2026, Winter 2027 and Spring 2027 intakes was 1 February 2026 and has already passed, so those three starts are now first-come, first-served while seats last.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS. Apply directly to Algonquin on the International Application Form in its International Application Portal (AC360) rather than through ontariocolleges.ca, with a CAD 135 application fee. There is no single fixed international deadline: Algonquin asks you to confirm the program is open before applying, warns that a program's status can change to waitlisted or closed before an admissions officer reviews the file, and publishes a closing-date sheet for each intake. For the Fall 2026 intake that sheet gives this program's own dates: 9 September 2026 is the last day to apply on the International Application Portal and receive an acceptance, and 14 September 2026 is the last day to register.
