EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
-6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering, with at least 2+ years leading teams
-Demonstrated track record of building or significantly maturing a DevOps function - not just operating within an established one
-Experience operating and scaling systems to millions of users or connected devices
-Strong experience with AWS and cloud-based infrastructure at production scale
-Experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments
-Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipeline design (GitOps workflows preferred)
-Strong command of observability practices: metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting systems
-Experience managing multi-regional or highly available production systems with defined SLAs
-Experience with infrastructure cost optimization - not just monitoring spend, but actively managing it