Most Important

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles managing production AWS workloads.
• Strong hands-on experience with:
• EKS, Kubernetes networking, Helm, and autoscalers (Karpenter / Cluster-Autoscaler).
• Service Mesh (Istio, Linkerd, AWS App Mesh) for security and traffic control.
• AWS CDK (TypeScript or Python preferred) and CloudFormation.

• Solid grasp of SLI/SLO/error-budget concepts and monitoring/alerting best practices.
• Proficient in infrastructure automation (Go, Python, or TypeScript + Bash).
• Experience implementing Policy-as-Code using OPA/Rego in CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security (IAM, KMS, VPC design, encryption, OS hardening).

Nice to Have

• Experience with Internal Developer Portals (e.g., Backstage, Port, Cortex).
• Familiarity with:
• KEDA, K8s autoscalers, and AWS cost optimization strategies.
• Secrets management tools (Vault, Consul, AWS Secrets Manager).
• Chaos/resilience engineering (Gremlin, Litmus, AWS FIS).

• Experience with MongoDB or similar cloud-native databases.

Personal Traits

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities.
• Keen attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality work.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently and independently.