Scenario
- Business-critical service must modernise without extended outage
- Security requires reduced standing privilege and private access
- Operations require measurable recovery and support ownership
Platform Engineering Academy · architecture and delivery
Senior Case Study
A structured exercise for explaining trade-offs, sequencing delivery and defending a production design.
Response
- Clarify assumptions and constraints before proposing technology
- Present options with cost, risk and operational trade-offs
- Choose a phased path with validation and rollback gates
Evidence
- Architecture diagram and decision records
- Implementation plan and acceptance criteria
- Operational readiness and measurable success criteria
Required output
Create a reviewed senior case study for Platform Engineering Academy with assumptions, owners, evidence, unresolved risks and explicit acceptance criteria.