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Building Your Platform Engineering Team | Harness Resource

Platform engineering is a discipline that focuses on building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and systems that support software applications. It involves designing, developing, and managing the platform on which applications run, ensuring their stability, scalability, and reliability. But this also includes building a platform engineering team to manage these new processes.

However, most organizations building a platform engineering team transform an existing infrastructure engineering or maybe even DevOps team into a platform engineering team. But like modernizing application architecture, it’s going to take time and sweat equity. With that said, this ebook will help you understand the combination of experiences, skill sets, and mindsets required to enable your company realize greater benefits sooner.

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January 1, 2024

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Key Takeaways

Build a Product-Minded, Automation-First Team

Construct your platform team with diverse skills across security, infrastructure, and development. Every member must share a strict mandate to automate operational work and treat the platform as an internal product.

Empathy is a Core Competency

Leaders and team members must deeply understand the competing priorities of development, security, and operations. This shared empathy helps break down organizational silos and eliminates reliance on single-point-of-failure hero engineers.

Discover Pain Points Through Developer Immersion

Platform engineers should sit directly with software development teams to observe their daily workflows. Identifying recurring bottlenecks and tool struggles firsthand creates a highly relevant product backlog.

Launch with a Minimum Viable Platform

Begin by solving high-value, low-effort challenges, such as providing infrastructure as code with built-in security controls. Gradually build out automated pipelines and self-service capabilities to safely shift responsibilities left.

Scale Through Innersourcing and Self-Service

Accelerate transformation by establishing an innersource culture where code and information are freely shared across the organization. Double down on self-service investments to prevent manual ticketing processes from bottlenecking growth.