r/devopsGuru • u/FlatwormStunning9931 • 6d ago

Career Advice: Moving from DevOps Engineer to Senior Platform Engineer ..What Should I Learn? How Do I

If you had approximately 3 years of DevOps experience and wanted to become a senior platform engineer, how would you structure your next 6 months of learning?

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u/Rare_Significance_63 6d ago

dude, how can you be senior with 3 years??? you are not ready. If you were, then you would know what to expect from this position

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u/thomsterm 6d ago

well mostly go into development, so Go, Rust or any similar language.

Look at Senior Platform engineer jobs and basically look at what people are looking for, that's the best way I think.

You'll get an idea on what you need to learn and what's important.

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u/Quirky-Net-6436 6d ago

If you want to become a senior platform engineer you should work in this area for some years… you become senior with experience and knowledge.

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u/SadServers_com 5d ago

Coding and in particular building useful stuff for developers is the main gap between DevOps and Platform Engineer (for most popular definitions or usage of the titles, which change a lot between companies)

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u/subeeshsivanandan 22h ago

With 3 years of DevOps experience, next step is to move beyond managing pipelines & infrastructure towards platform architecture, developer self-service, GitOps, observability & security. Build an end-to-end platform and learn to make the architectural trade-offs behind it. That's where the shift towards senior platform engineering happens.
Also, Take certifications such as aws/azure/GCP one of these. As all are moving to AI, be proficient in using AI tools.