5+ years of hands-on DevOps/Infrastructure experience in production SaaS environments Strong experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms Terraform experience managing multi-cloud infrastructure Production Kubernetes experience (EKS/AKS) including service mesh technologies Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines Experience with containerization (Docker) and container orchestration at scale Experience in Python, or Go Experience with data pipeline infrastructure and orchestration Experience building and operating data lake infrastructure Experience implementing observability solutions Hands-on experience with database operations: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis Deep understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture best practices Experience with secrets management