Platform Engineer¶

Duration: 16–24 weeks · Difficulty: advanced · Badge: Platform

Internal developer platforms — Kubernetes, GitOps, observability, and self-service.

Complete roadmap¶

Target audience¶

Engineers who want the Platform Engineer skill profile and job outcomes below.

Job roles¶

Platform Engineer
Developer Experience Engineer
Infrastructure Platform Lead

Expected salary ranges¶

Senior platform / DX roles — treat as directional guidance only.

Prerequisites¶

Comfort with a laptop and a terminal
Complete earlier phases before later ones when marked ready
Prefer the Getting Started overview if you are new to the academy

Phases¶

Core¶

Linux — ready · 25 tutorials
Docker — ready · 20 tutorials
Kubernetes — ready · 20 tutorials
Helm — planned
Terraform — ready · 20 tutorials

Delivery¶

GitLab CI/CD — ready · 20 tutorials
Argo CD — planned
Python for DevOps — ready · 27 tutorials

Observability¶

Prometheus — planned
Grafana — planned
Loki — planned
OpenTelemetry — planned

Platform¶

Platform Engineering — planned
Site Reliability Engineering — planned

Skills gained¶

Ordered mastery of the technologies on this path
Hands-on labs and production-oriented habits
Interview and certification readiness for mapped exams

Projects¶

See the Projects catalog and Capstones. Map picks to this path’s technologies.

Capstone¶

Choose a capstone that exercises the final phases of this path (for example Status API for DevOps / Kubernetes, or the Python automation framework for AI for DevOps).

Interview roadmap¶

Finish ready technology tracks on this path
Use Interview Guides per technology
Rehearse troubleshooting stories from labs

Certification roadmap¶

CKA, CKS

Estimated duration¶

16–24 weeks of focused study (tutorials + labs). Stretch if you are new to Linux or cloud.