8+ years in DevOps/SRE roles operating high-availability distributed systems Deep Kubernetes expertise (StatefulSets, Operators, Service Meshes, scaling strategies) Strong background in API infrastructure: load balancing, API Gateways (Kong, Nginx), rate limiting, caching Proficiency with container technologies like Docker or Containerd Skilled in IaC (Terraform, Pulumi) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) Experience with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger/OTEL Strong networking knowledge (L4/L7 load balancers, TLS termination, DNS, ingress controllers) Proficiency with scripting languages (Bash, Python, Go, or NodeJS) Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure), ideally multi-cloud Excellent communication skills and comfort working with a diverse team across time zones Great ownership, humility, and bias to action Able to see a problem from all sides and quickly narrow down potential solutions Experience deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting production services