5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
Deep expertise with AWS, including hands-on production experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters
Strong understanding of container orchestration, networking, and security in cloud-native environments
Solid Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with modern tooling
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms. We're actively building out this area and want someone who's done it before
You've owned projects end-to-end. Scoped the work, built it, shipped it, and operated it. Not just picked up tickets
You write clear decision documents (ADRs, RFCs) and can explain infrastructure tradeoffs to both engineers and leadership
You've built infrastructure from scratch at a fast-moving company, not just inherited mature platforms
You thrive in startups. You ship daily, adapt when priorities shift, and don't wait to be told what to own
Hands-on compliance work (SOC 2 or HIPAA) in a regulated industry like fintech, healthcare, or government
Experience with event-driven autoscaling and async task processing systems (e.g., Celery, SQS, KEDA)
Experience with isolated or partitioned cloud environments for regulated workloads
Python scripting for automation and tooling
Experience with relational database administration, tuning, and scaling in production
Background in cost optimization and FinOps practices
Experience with secrets management and Kubernetes package management