Demonstrable experience building and managing infrastructure in a major cloud environment (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) Strong proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation, Ansible, or Terraform Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with tools such as GitHub Actions Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages, such as Python or Rust Experience implementing and using modern observability tools for monitoring, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack) Strong understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud environments