7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering 5+ years with AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, EKS, CloudFormation) and cloud automation Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Linux, and Terraform Strong experience with GitOps model, distributed version control, and CI/CD pipelines Proficiency with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog) Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash) for automation Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and reliability patterns