Minimum of 5 years dedicated experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles. Expert with Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), and Terraform/Pulumi. Deep, proven expertise in either AWS or GCP infrastructure. Strong ability to write clean, maintainable code for automation in Go, Python, or Node.js. Demonstrable experience implementing and maintaining modern cloud security controls and meeting key compliance standards (SOC2, PIPEDA, HIPAA and/or GDPR). Expertise in at least one major container platform: EKS, GKE, ECS, Fargate, OR Cloud Run. Experience with S3 (AWS) OR Cloud Storage (GCP). Experience with RDS (AWS) OR CloudSQL (GCP). Deploy event-driven components using Cloud Functions (AWS Lambda/GCP Functions) or their equivalents.