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Platform Engineer

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14 lessons3 levels1 capstone project
  • 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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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