RHCE – Red Hat Certified Engineer (Ansible automation)

RHCE builds on RHCSA and teaches you to automate system administration with Ansible. You will write playbooks, organise roles and manage many systems consistently from one control node.

• Write clean, reusable Ansible playbooks
• Use inventories, variables, facts and templates
• Organise automation with roles and collections
• Automate common RHCSA tasks across many servers
• Handle errors, secrets (Ansible Vault) and conditionals

• RHCSA holders ready for the next step
• Linux admins who repeat the same tasks across many servers
• Engineers moving into DevOps and automation roles

• RHCSA-level Linux skills (or equivalent experience)
• Comfort editing files with vim or nano
• Basic understanding of YAML is helpful

• Automation is one of the most requested skills in infrastructure jobs
• Turns one-server admin work into repeatable, fleet-wide changes
• A natural next step after RHCSA

Prepares you for the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam (EX294). Certification exams are booked and taken separately with the vendor.

Exam code

EX294

Format

Hands-on, performance-based (tasks on live systems)

Duration

About 4 hours

Prerequisite

Active RHCSA certification

Validity

3 years

Exam details can change — always confirm current format, price and rules on the vendor's website. Exams are not included in OpenSprig training. You book and take the exam separately with the vendor, at the vendor's price.

• Live, instructor-led online sessions you can ask questions in
• Practice on real systems in every class
• Exam-objective-aligned syllabus with mock tests
• Course community group for help between classes
• Weekend-friendly 2–3 hour classes