Senior-level hands-on experience leading and operating production-grade Kubernetes platforms
• Strong experience in cloud-native platform engineering with ownership of reliability, security, and scalability
• Proven experience working as a Technical Lead / Senior Individual Contributor
• Experience collaborating with Product Owners and cross-functional engineering teams
• Kubernetes (Production Operations)
o Cluster operations, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, performance tuning
• Rancher / RKE2
o Kubernetes provisioning, lifecycle management, operations
• AWS Cloud Services
o IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudWatch
• Linux Administration
o Networking, storage, system security hardening, scripting/automation
• Kubernetes & Cloud Networking
o TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/Certificates, ingress, load balancing, routing, firewalls
• Monitoring & Incident Management
o Observability (metrics, logs, alerts), incident response, root-cause analysis
• CI/CD & Version Control
o GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Documentation
o Architecture documents, runbooks, SOPs, onboarding guides