Strong collaboration skills 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 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 Common networking protocols