Kubernetes platforms often expose a growing tension between security requirements and developer speed. Review-based security models do not scale, platform teams become bottlenecks, and controls are bypassed in the name of delivery. This session presents Platform Security Engineering as an operating model that embeds security into the platform through guardrails rather than approval gates.

The talk combines technical architecture and organizational strategy, covering how identity boundaries, workload policies, and secure defaults were implemented as platform capabilities, and how roles, ownership, and expectations between platform, security, and engineering teams evolved. It also discusses business and engineering trade-offs, resistance encountered, and lessons from failures.

Attendees will gain practical approaches for reducing risk while maintaining developer velocity, and insights into aligning platform security decisions with organizational goals.