Launching and operating production scale kubernetes clusters Designing and operating infrastructure on AWS and other providers Operating MongoDB (or other document database) clusters Operating Redis (or other key-value storage) clusters Administering Linux servers Maintaining distributed software Operating Prometheus and Grafana Operating logging collection and analysis systems Participating in the on-call rotation (16:00pm – 4:00am UTC) Kubernetes & containers (advanced) AWS / EKS (advanced) Linux (advanced) Terraform and IaC in general (proficient) Helm (proficient) Go and/or Python (familiar) MongoDB (or similar) Redis (or similar) Monitoring – prometheus, grafana, thanos (familiar) Grasp of networking concepts (subnets, routing, peering, load balancing, NAT, etc.) Common networking protocols (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, UDP)