4+ years of hands-on DevOps experience
Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and environment management
Hands-on experience installing, configuring, and optimizing distributed systems across multi-node environments
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes including deploying stateful services, persistent volumes, Helm charts, operators, and cluster administration
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar
Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) including networking, IAM, storage, compute, security, and managed services
Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, or Datadog
Strong understanding of security best practices including certificate-based authentication, secrets management, encryption, TLS/SSL, RBAC, and cloud security
Strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure, deployment failures, networking, and distributed application issues
Linux experience is mandatory including system administration, troubleshooting, hardening, and shell scripting