Platform and DevOps career ladder

5 levels, from Junior Platform Engineer to Principal Platform Engineer. Each one is rated on the same 36 skills — what changes between the rungs is how good you have to be at each. An infrastructure and reliability ladder from junior platform engineer to principal, covering cloud, CI/CD, containers, on-call, cost and developer experience.

• Level 1 of 5

  Junior Platform Engineer

  Runs pipelines and infrastructure tasks under close guidance.

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• Level 2 of 5

  Platform Engineer

  Operates infrastructure and CI/CD independently day to day.

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• Level 3 of 5

  Senior Platform Engineer

  Owns reliability and delivery for a platform area end to end.

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• Level 4 of 5

  Staff Platform Engineer

  Sets platform direction across teams and leads incidents.

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• Level 5 of 5

  Principal Platform Engineer

  Shapes infrastructure strategy and the hardest calls org-wide.

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• Cloud Infrastructure 6 skills
• CI/CD and Delivery 4 skills
• Container Platform 3 skills
• SRE and Reliability 5 skills
• Cost and DevEx 4 skills
• Certifications 4 certifications
• Delivery 4 skills
• Craft 3 skills
• Communication 4 skills
• Leadership 3 skills