At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure automation, SRE, or a similar role.
Understanding of Kubernetes architecture, concepts, and components, with hands-on experience in building and managing Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
Experienced with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery principles (examples: Github Actions, Concourse).
Solid experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or ContainerD.
Strong foundation of Linux administration fundamentals.
Familiarity with observability best practices and tools, such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
Technical Writing (Documentation, process documents, proposals).
Experience with Go programming language not mandatory but a nice to have skill.
Kubernetes certifications are desirable (e.g. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)).
Knowledge of the DigitalOcean cloud platform (e.g., droplets, spaces, networking) and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., ansible, chef) is advantageous.