I challenge the author to showcase a developer platform that handles secrets management and access management correctly and transparently. Sorry, can't be done.

I challenge the author to showcase a developer platform that handles secrets management and access management correctly and transparently. Sorry, can't be done. I've seen various attempts that certainly tried, and they've all had holes. Product teams need somebody who has the following skillsets: security, observability, deploy/release, containers/repeatable environments, networking/runtime/storage... if you don't have those skills on your team, you're going to have a hard time. Sometimes you find those skillsets in one engineer, sometimes among multiple people on the team. If they're in one engineer, maybe that guy's title is DevOps, maybe it's Platform, maybe it's SRE, maybe it's something else. Stop sweating the title and start hiring for the skillsets you're missing. If you can't find anyone, find people on the team who are interested in learning, and give them time to train on it. Who cares what other companies are doing, worry about the missing holes on your own team first.