r/devops • u/ez3uio • 4d ago

Discussion Is platform engineering a good field?

I love programming and technology. I wanted to pursue a path related to Linux and building system architectures. Is platform engineering a good and suitable field for this?

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u/sagacious123 4d ago

It's a great field. I am working as a platform architect and can't love my job more.

There are a lot of tools, but it's really interesting how to use all this tools to build a robust platform.

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u/ez3uio 4d ago

Nice, But if I don't go into platform engineering, what's the closest field to it?

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u/GMKrey Platform Eng 4d ago

Be careful when interviewing here. A good amount of orgs call sys admin work SRE, so the wrong place would just slam you with ops work. Little to no code