Japan's first "DASA Platform Engineering certification course (with exam) started!

DASA (HQ: Rotterdam, The Netherlands; CEO: Rick Fahrenhorst), the world's largest DevOps/Agile industry association, announced that DASA Platform Engineering Training (Japanese version with exam) will begin in November 2025.

DASA has over 40,000 community members in 50 countries and partnerships with over 300 organizations. DASA offers a variety of programs to support "BizDevOps," in which both business and technical departments work together to create new value in the enterprise.

For the first time, the Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA) is publicly offering this course to IT professionals in Japan. The content is a global standard program that covers everything from the big picture of platform engineering to the latest practical techniques, with the aim of achieving high-performance organizational transformation. It strongly supports the promotion of DevOps, the construction of DX infrastructure, and the improvement of the developer experience.

Global Trends and the Value of Platform Engineering

Platform engineering is the next evolution after cloud-native, DevOps, and agile development. Since Gartner announced in 2023 that "platform engineering will be adopted by more than 80% of software organizations within the next five years," its adoption is spreading rapidly among global companies.

Platform engineering is becoming established at leading companies in the U.S. and Europe as a "foundation for maximizing development team productivity," and major companies such as Google, Spotify, and Netflix have also adopted it.

Following this trend, platform engineering is now beginning to attract attention in Japan as a "next-generation essential skill" that can solve issues associated with the increasing complexity of cloud environments and the promotion of DX.

DASA X CNIA

DASA Platform Engineering Certification Course (with exam)

DASA Certification Course

Outline】】1.

1. understanding platform engineering

Relationship between DevOps and Platform Engineering

Stakeholder Management in Platform Engineering 4.

Platform Engineering for Accelerating DevOps Culture 5.

Platform as a Product 6.

Building the Developer Experience 7.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Platform Engineering 8.

CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Delivery) in Platform Engineering 9.

9. role of containerization in platform engineering

10. monitoring, logging, incident response

11. platform engineering beyond design and development

Target Audience

Platform engineers/SRE/DevOps engineers

IT Managers/Product Managers

DX promotion leaders/IT department managers

All those involved in developer experience and platform strategy

Program】 【Program

Course Title: DASA Platform Engineering Certification Course (with exam)

Delivery Partner: Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA)

Initial Dates: Friday, November 7 and Monday, November 10, 2025 (2 days)

Price: 200,000 yen (excluding tax, discount for CNIA members)

Certification Examination Format: Online proctored exam (80 minutes, 40 questions, 65% pass line)

Course Features: The format varies from course to course and can be held online or offline. For the convenience of the participants, we are planning to offer the course on Saturdays and Sundays in the future.

Instructors: Experts at the forefront of platform engineering will be in charge.

For inquiries, please contact: https://www.cnia.io/dasa-platform-engineering/

＜Comments from Rick Fahrenhorst, CEO of DASA

Platform engineering is now attracting worldwide attention as a core strategic function for realizing high-performance digital organizations.

At DASA, we see this as the driving force behind "developer flow," "AI-native infrastructure," and "scalable innovation.

By launching this program in Japan with CNIA, we are not only learning the tools, but also training a new generation of professionals who can lead this transformation in both mindset and impact.

<Comments from Kazuto Kusama, Chairman of the Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA)

We are honored to be the first to offer DASA Platform Engineering in Japan.

Platform engineering is a strategic approach to reduce developers' cognitive load and maximize their productivity in the increasingly complex cloud environment.

It is also gaining attention as a key discipline in the coming age of AI.

Through this course, CNIA will provide comprehensive learning that includes not only technical aspects but also organizational transformation to support true DX promotion by Japanese companies. We look forward to your participation.

Lecturer's Comment

＜Mr. Satoya Nakagawa, President of Future Techno Developers, Inc.

Platform engineering may not be a familiar term to you yet. However, many companies are experiencing a decline in productivity as the size of their organizations grows.

Platform engineering is a practical approach to improving productivity and maximizing the output of your services. Although it is not easy to apply this knowledge to your own organization, this training will provide you with a valuable opportunity to learn it systematically. We hope you will take this course and make use of it to improve your company's development productivity.

<Tomohiro Yamana, Consultant at a consulting firm

Platform engineering is a difficult subject for many people, and many people wonder where to start.

In this training course, you will learn platform engineering systematically based on the knowledge DASA has cultivated over the years. By learning the theory step by step, you will become a person who can surely contribute to improving your company's developer experience and productivity. You will be able to steadily understand the whole picture, even if it seems complicated. Please take this opportunity to attend this course.

＜Mr. Masataka Tsukamoto, Solution Architect at a foreign ICT vendor

Today, we hear the term "platform engineering" more and more, but there are still differences in the perception of its content and scope among those who talk about it. Platform engineering is a systematized practice based on many years of knowledge, and learning it comprehensively as an individual and as an organization as a basis of knowledge is essential to achieving more practical DevOps.

This training is the only course that provides a comprehensive and efficient study of platform engineering based on DASA's knowledge. Please take this course as an excellent opportunity to review your past efforts in platform operations and consider future DevOps practices.

Official delivery partner for this certification course

●Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA) (started on November 7)

　( https://www.cnia.io/dasa-platform-engineering/ )

ITpreneurs Japan Asia Pacific, Inc.

　( https://www.itpreneurs.co.jp/training/dpfe )

＜About DASA

DASA is the world's largest DevOps and Agile industry association and a trusted partner for organizations seeking to transform themselves into high-performance digital organizations. DASA facilitates the delivery of practical guidance and workforce development solutions for building high-performance IT functions. It also helps define, promote understanding, and advance the DevOps industry through networking, knowledge sharing, awards, continuous learning, and certification.

Global site : https://www.dasa.org/

Japanese website ： https://japan.devopsagileskills.org/

＜About Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA)

The Cloud Native Innovators Association (CNIA) is an organization that supports human resource development and provides a forum for exchange in order to promote the spread of cloud-native technologies in Japan. The organization also operates the Platform Engineering Kaigi and supports hybrid technical communities.

Website: https://www.cnia.io/