Platform & Ops Career Roadmaps
Step-by-step Platform & Ops career roadmaps: the skills to learn, in what order, and what each stage of the path is for.
AI SRE: LLM-Assisted Reliability Engineering
Own platform reliability end-to-end using LLM-powered detection, triage, and remediation pipelines—where the job is making AI systems trustworthy, not just keeping lights on.
Platform & Ops · advanced · 14 min read
Cloud Architect
Cloud Architects own the end-to-end design of scalable, secure, cost-efficient platforms. This path is worth walking because it sits at the intersection of engineering depth and business leverage.
Platform & Ops · advanced · 14 min read
Cloud Engineer, AWS, Azure and GCP
Cloud Engineers design, deploy, and operate infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Multi-cloud fluency is increasingly table stakes as enterprises hedge vendor lock-in and demand portable platform skills.
Platform & Ops · beginner · 14 min read
DevOps Engineer (Platform Track)
Platform DevOps engineers own the internal developer platform: CI/CD, container orchestration, observability, and the golden paths that let product teams ship without filing tickets.
Platform & Ops · intermediate · 14 min read
DevSecOps Engineer
DevSecOps Engineers embed security into every layer of the delivery pipeline, owning policy-as-code, supply-chain integrity, and runtime defence across cloud-native platforms. High leverage, high accountability, genuinely hard to automate away.
Platform & Ops · advanced · 14 min read
Kubernetes Engineer
Kubernetes Engineers design, operate, and evolve container platforms that product teams depend on daily. Demand is durable, the skill ceiling is high, and senior practitioners command top-quartile compensation.
Platform & Ops · intermediate · 14 min read
Network Engineer for Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Design, automate, and operate the network fabric that cloud-native platforms run on — from VPC routing to service mesh to zero-trust policy. High leverage, high ownership.
Platform & Ops · intermediate · 14 min read
Platform Engineer Building Internal Developer Platforms
Design and operate the golden paths that product engineers walk every day. High leverage, high ownership, and increasingly the role that separates shipping companies from stuck ones.
Platform & Ops · advanced · 14 min read
Site Reliability Engineer
SREs own the reliability contract between engineering and production: they instrument, automate, and defend SLOs at scale. The platform track at advanced entry means you are already past basics and building systems others depend on.
Platform & Ops · advanced · 14 min read