Platform Engineering
Platform engineering is about building the internal platform other engineers build on top of — so each team isn’t solving the same infrastructure problems independently, and provisioning a new service doesn’t mean re-deriving how deployment, secrets, and networking are supposed to work.
In practice: GitOps-driven Kubernetes platforms, self-service patterns via Helm and FluxCD, and Infrastructure-as-Code that’s reusable across projects rather than bespoke per team.
Also
- DevOps Engineering — CI/CD, automation, and GitOps — making releases routine instead of risky.
- Site Reliability Engineering — Observability and reliability as measurable properties, not luck.
- Cloud Infrastructure — Architecture and provisioning on AWS, defined as code and version-controlled.