· 5-8+ years of relevant professional experience

· 5+ years of production experience with AWS, including but not limited to EKS, EC2, IAM, Kafka, Redis, Memcache, and Cloudwatch

· Extensive experience leading design sessions and evolving well-architected environments in AWS at scale

· Extensive experience with Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, scripting(Bash/Python/Yaml) and helm

· Experience with Splunk, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch or tools like New Relic, Datadog or Grafana/Prometheus.

· Experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools - Specifically Splunk and Otel

· Experience instrumenting both Python and Node.js applications to send metrics, traces and logs to third-party Observability tooling.

· Experience with GitOps and tools like ArgoCD/fluxcd.

· Interest in Instrumentation and Optimization of Kubernetes Clusters

· Ability to listen and partner to understand requirements, troubleshoot problems or promote the adoption of platforms

· Experience with GitHub/GitHub Actions in either a software engineering or DevOps environment

· Preferably experience with secrets management, for example Hashicorp Vault

· Preferably experience in an agile environment and JIRA