Platform engineering
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies platform-as-a-product principles and measures developer outcomes.
Course coverage
- Platform Engineering Fundamentals
- Course planned (1)
Infrastructure and operations
Platform Engineer
Builds and evolves internal platforms that provide secure, reliable self-service capabilities to software teams.
- Skills
- 10
- Published coverage
- 10
- Awaiting publication
- 0
Skills
Platform product
Internal developer platforms
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs cohesive self-service platform capabilities and golden paths.
Course coverage
- Developer Portals
- Internal Developer Platforms
- Course planned (1)
Developer experience
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Reduces cognitive load and friction across software delivery workflows.
Platform capabilities
Platform APIs
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Defines stable, discoverable contracts for platform capabilities.
Course coverage
Container orchestration
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs and operates container orchestration as a reusable platform capability.
Software delivery
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Integrates build, release, and deployment workflows into platform capabilities.
Course coverage
Platform operations
Observability
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Makes platform behavior and developer-facing service health explainable.
Course coverage
Platform operations
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Manages platform lifecycle, capacity, upgrades, backup, recovery, and incident response.
Course coverage
Platform security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Builds identity, policy, isolation, secrets, and supply-chain controls into secure platform defaults.
Course coverage
Platform extensibility
Importance: Important (3 of 5)
Extends platform capabilities through APIs, controllers, automation, and reusable abstractions.
Course coverage