The DevOps & Platform Stack

Claude skills for DevOps engineers and platform teams cover the core recurring jobs in platform engineering — CI/CD pipeline design, observability instrumentation, secrets management, and infrastructure architecture. This stack was built for teams building or improving the platform that other engineers depend on.

What these skills do

Senior DevOps Engineer

Get senior DevOps perspective on architecture decisions — infrastructure design, deployment strategies, scaling approaches, and the engineering tradeoffs that determine whether a platform is maintainable at scale. Covers cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and the common patterns that distinguish well-designed platform engineering from ad-hoc infrastructure.

CI/CD Pipeline Builder

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines — build stage structure, test integration, deployment automation, rollback strategy, and the pipeline design patterns that give teams fast, reliable delivery without fragile manual steps. Covers GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and the tool-agnostic principles that apply across platforms.

Observability Designer

Instrument systems with the right metrics, logs, and traces — defining the observability strategy for a new service, improving instrumentation on an existing one, and the alerting design that catches real problems without alarm fatigue. Covers OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and the SLI/SLO approach to reliability measurement.

Environment & Secrets Manager

Design secure secrets management across development, staging, and production environments — vault configuration, secret rotation, CI/CD integration, and the patterns that prevent credential sprawl as teams and services grow. Covers HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, and the environment variable practices that work at scale.

Senior Security Engineer

Apply security engineering thinking to infrastructure decisions — network segmentation, identity and access management, zero-trust architecture, and the security review process for platform changes. Covers the intersection of DevOps and security (DevSecOps) and the specific controls that matter for cloud-native infrastructure.

Who this is for

• DevOps and platform engineers building or improving CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure
• SREs responsible for observability, reliability, and incident response
• Engineering teams setting up their first production infrastructure or scaling existing platforms

For AI-specific infrastructure and deployment concerns, see the AI Engineer Stack. For security compliance documentation alongside engineering controls, see the Security Engineering Stack.