4+ years of hands-on infrastructure/platform/DevOps experience with production systems. Strong understanding of infrastructure engineering principles: scalability, reliability, observability, and automation. Solid experience with Kubernetes in production environments, including troubleshooting and optimization. Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Helm, or similar). Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP), including networking, security, and compute services. Strong programming skills, particularly in Python and/or Go. Experience contributing to technical initiatives or mentoring junior team members. Understanding of CI/CD practices, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure automation principles. Comfortable working independently and in distributed teams. Ability to provide and constructively receive feedback. Available for collaboration during overlap with US Central Time zone.