This Platform Engineering Fundamentals training is designed to help participants understand how to design, build, and operate internal developer platforms that improve developer productivity, standardization, and operational efficiency. The course covers platform engineering principles, developer experience, self-service infrastructure, golden paths, automation, and integration with DevOps and cloud-native ecosystems. Participants will gain practical insight into building scalable and secure platform foundations.

• Understand the core concepts, architecture, and principles of platform engineering in modern software delivery.
• Design and manage internal developer platforms, infrastructure services, and self-service workflows.
• Implement automation, infrastructure provisioning, and environment standardization using DevOps practices.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, monitoring, and deployment workflows effectively.
• Manage security, governance, scalability, and operational reliability across platform services.
• Build scalable, secure, and developer-friendly platform solutions using platform engineering best practices.

 • Platform engineers
 • DevOps engineers
 • Site reliability engineers
 • Cloud and infrastructure engineers
 • Engineering managers and architects

 • Basic understanding of DevOps and cloud concepts
 • Familiarity with CI/CD and containerization is helpful
 • Interest in improving developer experience and platform operations

 • Understanding platform engineering principles
 • Designing internal developer platforms
 • Building self-service infrastructure
 • Implementing golden paths and templates
 • Improving developer experience
 • Integrating CI/CD with platform tooling
 • Applying platform security and governance
 • Operating scalable platform foundations

By the end of this training, participants will be able to understand and apply platform engineering concepts to design and operate internal developer platforms. Learners will gain strong fundamentals in developer experience, automation, and governance, enabling them to build scalable and efficient platform foundations.

Introduction to Platform Engineering & Internal Platforms
 • What is platform engineering
 • Platform engineering vs DevOps
 • Internal developer platforms concepts
 • Platform team responsibilities

Developer Experience & Golden Paths
 • Understanding developer workflows
 • Designing golden paths
 • Templates and scaffolding
 • Reducing cognitive load for developers

Self-Service Infrastructure & Automation
 • Self-service provisioning concepts
 • Infrastructure automation basics
 • Platform APIs and portals
 • Policy-driven automation

Platform Architecture & Tooling
 • Reference architectures
 • Platform toolchains overview
 • Integration with cloud providers
 • Standardization strategies

Security, Governance & Compliance in Platforms
 • Embedding security into platforms
 • Policy as code concepts
 • Identity and access management
 • Compliance automation

Observability & Reliability for Platforms
 • Monitoring platform components
 • Logging and tracing basics
 • SLOs and SLIs for platforms
 • Reliability engineering concepts

CI/CD Integration & Developer Enablement
 • Platform-managed CI/CD pipelines
 • Reusable pipeline templates
 • Secrets and artifact management
 • Enabling team autonomy

Operating & Scaling Platform Teams
 • Platform operating models
 • Measuring platform success
 • Stakeholder communication
 • Continuous improvement strategies

Platform Engineering Strategy Workshop & Best Practices
 • Designing a sample internal developer platform
 • Defining golden paths and services
 • Integrating security and observability
 • Final workshop review and best practices

• Platform Engineering Setup & Architecture Assessment
• Infrastructure Automation & Environment Provisioning Assessment
• CI/CD Pipeline & Deployment Workflow Assessment
• Monitoring, Security & Platform Governance Assessment
• End-to-End Platform Engineering Project Assessment

Participants will be evaluated through hands-on platform design exercises, practical automation and platform workflow activities, instructor-led reviews, and a final assessment focused on designing a foundational internal developer platform.

Participants will receive course materials, slides, reference materials, exercises and access to resources for further learning.

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will receive an AcadNXT Certificate of Completion for Platform Engineering Fundamentals. This digital, verifiable certification validates practical platform engineering concepts, internal developer platform design, and developer experience optimization skills and can be shared on LinkedIn and included in professional profiles to enhance platform and DevOps career credibility.