– Strong hands-on experience with **Kubernetes** in production environments.

– Experience operating **Argo CD** or similar GitOps deployment systems.

– Experience with **Helm**, Kustomize, Kubernetes YAML, and Git-based deployment workflows.

– Cloud experience with **AWS**, **OCI**, or similar cloud providers.

– Familiarity with containerized application delivery using Docker and Kubernetes.

– Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.

– Strong troubleshooting skills across Kubernetes workloads, networking, ingress, DNS, secrets, and deployment pipelines.

– Working knowledge of observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, CloudWatch, or OCI-native monitoring.

– Experience with Git workflows, pull requests, code review, and environment promotion.

– Ability to write clear documentation, operational runbooks, and platform guidance for application engineers.

– Strong communication skills and comfort working with distributed engineering teams.