Platform Engineer assigned to your roadmap.
A Platform Engineer builds the internal tooling your own developers use, so shipping does not require knowing how the infrastructure works underneath.
Assigned under one service agreement with a minimum monthly capacity in hours, run by a service delivery manager in Chiang Mai, Thailand — five hours ahead of Northern Europe.
This role is delivered as part of our cloud and DevOps services. Take the role on its own, or the whole discipline as one delivery team.
What a Platform Engineer does on a managed DevOps team.
Skills and scope are agreed before delivery starts, so the first sprint is productive rather than a ramp-up month. The work runs to the same backlog, the same repositories and the same definition of done as your own team's.
Platform Engineer skills and technology we assign for
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Building golden paths and self-service tooling so teams provision without raising tickets.
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Standardising build, deploy and environment patterns across services.
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Developer experience work, measured in how long it takes a new engineer to ship something.
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Maintaining the service catalogue so teams can find what already exists before rebuilding it.
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Measuring developer experience, usually as time from first commit to first deploy.
Seniority levels we assign.
Senior. Platform work only pays back when the person building it has run the systems underneath. Seniority is one of the inputs in how the monthly fee is built.
When a Platform Engineer is the right assignment.
Worth assigning once several teams are duplicating the same infrastructure work. On an ongoing roadmap this role is most often assigned alongside a DevOps Engineer or a Cloud Engineer. All 4 roles in this service line can sit on the same agreement, and capacity moves between them at the monthly cycle rather than requiring a new contract. It is one of the assignments that make up DevOps managed services at Azendo.
Questions about assigning a Platform Engineer.
How many teams justify a platform engineer?
Roughly three or more duplicating the same infrastructure work. Below that, a DevOps engineer is the better assignment.
Is this the same as DevOps?
Overlapping but not identical. DevOps builds the pipeline; platform engineering builds the tooling your developers use to reach it.
Add platform engineer capacity to your roadmap.
Tell us the scope and the stack. We come back with the profile, the capacity and what the first month looks like, or you can talk to a service delivery manager first.
Assign a Platform Engineer to your roadmap.
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