Platform Engineer
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- Build the substrate
- Build the IDP
- Scale the platform
Benchmark: Current Platform Engineer / Internal Developer Platform roles + CNCF / Platform Engineering standards (current Sep 2026) Market refresh: reusable platform services; Kubernetes; Terraform/IaC and GitOps; CI/CD; Backstage/developer portals; platform APIs; golden paths; policy/security; observability/SLOs; multi-tenancy; platform-as-product; developer productivity metrics; AI/agent-ready platform evolution.
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Enrichment
Build the substrate
Kubernetes, IaC + GitOps
Coverage: Linux / cloud / containers / Kubernetes / Terraform / GitOps
Developer users + golden paths
Coverage: Platform-as-product / developer journeys / templates / adoption
Build the IDP
Portal, catalog + platform APIs
Coverage: Backstage / service catalog / scaffolding / APIs
Policy + observability
Coverage: OPA/Kyverno / IAM / secrets / telemetry / SLOs
Scale the platform
Multi-tenancy + economics
Coverage: Quotas / isolation / capacity / resilience / FinOps
DevEx metrics + agentic platform
Coverage: DORA/SPACE / satisfaction / AI workloads / agents as users
Role-Readiness Proof / Capstone
Build an Internal Developer Platform: two golden paths, Kubernetes + Terraform, GitOps deployment, service catalog/scaffold, IAM/secrets, policy-as-code, logs/metrics/traces, SLOs, rollback and one AI/agent workload path.
Proof Rubric
- Reusable abstractions
- self-service guardrails
- secure defaults
- SLO evidence
- tenant boundaries
- recovery
- developer experience
- measurable time-to-value/adoption
- explicit tradeoffs across flexibility, reliability, security and cost