- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering, including 2+ years in a lead or senior ownership role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS, including cluster operations, networking, autoscaling, workload reliability, and security best practices.
Solid AWS experience: VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Route 53, Lambda, Load Balancers, CloudFront/S3 etc.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools, especially Terraform/Terragrunt.
- Experience with GitOps-based delivery using Argo CD or Flux, and Helm/Kustomize for Kubernetes application management.
- Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking knowledge, including troubleshooting production systems.
- Experience with secrets management, access control, and credential rotation practices.
- Strong observability background: metrics, logs, alerts, SLOs, incident investigation, and tools such as Datadog, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, or Opsgenie.
- Ability to lead technical discussions, explain trade-offs, set priorities, and drive decisions across engineering teams.
Strong communication, ownership, task management, and mentoring skills.