Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar
10+ years of experience building services that leverage cloud-native infrastructure and tooling
Experience deploying and maintaining bare-metal and cloud kubernetes through tools such as Talos, RKE2, Proxmox, or k3s
Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, and/or similar IaC / GitOps tooling
Experience successfully building, releasing, and supporting highly available, consistently performant services
Knowledge of hardware and network level implications of on-prem compute
Experience with platform optimization, particularly resource optimization, management, and cluster tuning in a constrained environment
Ability to observe and troubleshoot distributed systems with tools such as Alloy, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Advanced skills in Python, Bash, and other tooling as appropriate to build services and meet product goals
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work through collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams
Experience working with Jira for task management and progress tracking