Platform Engineer
Building and evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to accelerate delivery
Platform Engineer es un rol en la familia Platform Engineering. Tiene 63 habilidades en 5 niveles (de Junior a Principal). 192 habilidades son obligatorias. Dominios clave: Programming Fundamentals, Backend Development, Database Management.
Stack tecnológico
Enfoque por nivel
Building self-service tools. Writing Terraform modules. Setting up templates for new services. Documenting the platform.
Designing self-service infrastructure. Building Internal Developer Portal (Backstage). CI/CD templates. Golden paths for developers.
IDP architecture. Kubernetes operators. Service catalog. Developer experience metrics. Compliance automation.
Platform strategy. Product management for internal platform. Coordination with SRE, Security, Development. Roadmap.
Enterprise platform vision. Platform as a Product. Multi-team platform strategy. Industry thought leadership.
Matriz de habilidades
63 habilidades × 5 niveles. Haga clic en una celda para ver detalles.
AI-Assisted Development
4 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | A | W | A | E | E |
| Cursor IDE | A | W | A | A | — |
| ChatGPT / Claude | A | W | A | E | E |
| Prompt Engineering for Code | A | W | A | E | E |
API & Integration
3 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST API Design | A | W | A | E | E |
| GraphQL Design | A | W | A | E | E |
| API Documentation | A | W | A | E | E |
Architecture & System Design
4 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System Design Fundamentals | A | W | A | E | E |
| High Load Architecture | A | W | A | E | E |
| Capacity Planning | A | W | A | E | E |
| Disaster Recovery Design | A | W | A | E | E |
Backend Development
1 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redis | A | W | A | E | E |
Cloud & Infrastructure
18 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | A | W | A | E | E |
| Container Security Scanning | A | W | A | E | E |
| Kubernetes Core | A | W | A | E | E |
| Kubernetes Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| Helm | A | W | A | E | E |
| Terraform | A | W | A | E | E |
| Pulumi | A | W | A | E | E |
| Ansible | A | W | A | E | E |
| Crossplane | A | W | A | E | E |
| Serverless Functions | A | W | A | E | E |
| Serverless Containers | A | W | A | E | E |
| AWS | A | W | A | E | E |
| Google Cloud Platform | A | W | A | E | E |
| Istio Service Mesh | A | W | A | E | E |
| Envoy Proxy | A | W | A | E | E |
| Network Fundamentals | A | W | A | E | E |
| Load Balancing | A | W | A | E | E |
| CDN & Edge Computing | A | W | A | E | E |
Database Management
1 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostgreSQL | A | W | A | E | E |
DevOps & CI/CD
8 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Actions / GitLab CI | A | W | A | E | E |
| GitLab CI/CD Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| GitOps Practices | A | W | A | E | E |
| ArgoCD | A | W | A | E | E |
| Feature Flags | A | W | A | E | E |
| Blue/Green Deployment | A | W | A | E | E |
| Canary Deployment | A | W | A | E | E |
| Progressive Delivery | A | W | A | E | E |
Observability & Monitoring
8 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Structured Logging | A | W | A | E | E |
| ELK Stack | A | W | A | E | E |
| Grafana Loki | A | W | A | E | E |
| Prometheus & Grafana | A | W | A | E | E |
| Custom Business Metrics | A | W | A | E | E |
| OpenTelemetry | A | W | A | E | E |
| SLI / SLO / SLA | A | W | A | E | E |
| On-Call Management | A | W | A | E | E |
Programming Fundamentals
8 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algorithms & Complexity | A | W | A | E | E |
| Data Structures | A | W | A | E | E |
| OOP & SOLID Principles | A | W | A | E | E |
| Design Patterns | A | W | A | E | E |
| Multithreading | A | W | A | E | E |
| Async Programming | A | W | A | E | E |
| Code Quality & Refactoring | A | W | A | E | E |
| Type Safety & Type Systems | A | W | A | E | E |
Security
3 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OWASP & Application Security | A | W | A | E | E |
| Secure Coding Practices | A | W | A | E | E |
| Secrets Management | A | W | A | E | E |
Testing & QA
3 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit Testing | A | W | A | E | E |
| Integration Testing | A | W | A | E | E |
| Chaos Engineering | A | W | A | E | E |
Version Control & Collaboration
2 habilidades| Habilidades | Jun | Mid | Sen | Lead | Princ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git Advanced | A | W | A | E | E |
| Code Review | A | W | A | E | E |
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Qué habilidades se necesitan para el rol de Platform Engineer?
El rol de Platform Engineer requiere 63 habilidades, de las cuales 192 son obligatorias. Las habilidades se distribuyen en 5 niveles: de Junior a Principal. Ver matriz completa.
¿Cómo avanzar al siguiente nivel en el rol de Platform Engineer?
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¿Qué stack tecnológico se usa en el rol de Platform Engineer?
El stack incluye 5 tecnologías en diferentes niveles. Go/Python, Terraform, Kubernetes basics, Backstage basics, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Docker, Go/Python, Terraform modules, Kubernetes, Backstage, ArgoCD, Crossplane, Helm charts, Custom CLI tools, Go, Kubernetes operators (kubebuilder), Backstage plugins, Crossplane compositions, OPA/Gatekeeper, Score/Humanitec...
¿Cómo define la comunidad los requisitos para el rol de Platform Engineer?
Los requisitos del rol son definidos por la comunidad a través de un sistema de propuestas. Cualquier miembro puede sugerir cambios que pasan por votación y revisión de expertos.