Cloud Constellation/Careers/Platform Engineer

CAREER PATH

Platform Engineer

You're not building one pipeline — you're building the internal platform other engineers self-serve from. The hottest infra-adjacent title in the market right now, and genuinely distinct from DevOps.

11 clusters 4 domains ~85 hours AZ-104 · AZ-400 aligned

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Who this is for

Comfortable with compute and basic IaC already. This path goes deeper into building reusable, self-service infrastructure rather than one-off automation.

How this path works
Each cluster below links to its real lesson page. Go in order the first time through — later clusters assume the ones before them. Once you've done a full pass, use it as reference.

The path — in order

Compute

01
Virtual Machines & Compute
The compute primitives any platform is built on.
Domain 1 · Compute
02
Containers
The standard unit of deployment for internal platforms.
Domain 1 · Compute
03
Kubernetes (AKS)
Where most internal developer platforms actually run.
Domain 1 · Compute
04
Scalability & Elasticity
Autoscaling as a platform-level guarantee, not a one-off config.
Domain 1 · Compute

Operations

05
Monitoring & Observability
Giving every team on the platform visibility by default.
Domain 5 · Operations
06
Governance & Policy
Guardrails that scale across every team using the platform.
Domain 5 · Operations

IaC & DevOps

07
ARM Templates & Bicep
The building blocks of self-service infrastructure.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
08
Automation & Scripting
Automating platform operations, not just deployments.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
09
CI/CD Pipelines
The golden path every team on the platform follows.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps
10
Source Control & Artifacts
Shared tooling and package management.
Domain 6 · IaC & DevOps

Hybrid & Workplace

11
Azure Arc
Extending the platform to hybrid infrastructure.
Domain 8 · Hybrid & Workplace

Certification this path maps to

AZ-104: Azure Administrator AssociateAZ-400: DevOps Engineer Expert

Where this leads

DevOps Engineer and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer share most of this foundation with narrower scope.

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