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"Platform Engineer" has started to grow as a name for pretty much this. An engineer that builds the platform that all things run on. For example, the k8s cluste
by Chilinot 2y ago
"Platform Engineer" has started to grow as a name for pretty much this. An engineer that builds the platform that all things run on. For example, the k8s clusters, the observability stack, has on-call, and builds the internal tools and automations (called the IDP, or internal developer platform).
- liveoneggs 2y agoIDP already has a very important meaning as a part of any platform :)
- Chilinot 2y agoYea, it's confusing, i give you that.
- attendant3446 2y agoApparently not everyone gets it. I once went to an AWS meetup and introduced myself as a "platform engineer", but not everyone understood what I did =) But personally, I like "platform engineer" more than "ops".