At least 5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or Platform Engineer Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including the ability to troubleshoot cluster-related issues Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python, with experience writing automation scripts for CI/CD pipelines Experience working with a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and a solid understanding of networking concepts such as VPCs, DNS, TLS, load balancing, and VPNs Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and modern CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, or FluxCD Strong ability to architect solutions from the ground up and plan implementation on tight deadlines Experience with high-level programming languages such as Python, Typescript, Go Building Infrastructure following PCI and SOC2 best practices Experience managing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS), including services such as EC2, EKS, RDS (Aurora Serverless), Elasticache (Redis), Route53, S3, ECR, IAM security, VPC, and Security Groups Strong track record operating large-scale, high-availability, asynchronous, distributed systems Deploying and managing service-oriented architectures Improving application performance and solving scaling challenges Collaborated with both internal and external departments in architecting and designing scalable and secure solutions Design and implement robust monitoring and reporting solutions using tools like Datadog and Sentry Working with serverless frameworks such as AWS Lambda Experience with data warehousing using BigQuery or Redshift