Desired Competencies (Technical/Behavioral Competency)

Must-Have**

Strong hands-on with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, RBAC, networking, Helm/Kustomize)

Ansible for configuration management, automation, and infra as code

Python for tooling, automation, and platform integrations

Expertise in Linux, networking (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP), and shell scripting

Observability: logging/metrics/tracing (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, OpenTelemetry)

CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins) and GitOps workflows (e.g., Argo CD)

Experience running production systems with oncall support and incident response

Positive-to-Have(Ideally should not be more than 3-5)

Cloud platforms: AWS (EKS/AKS/GKE), Terraform/Pulumi

Service meshes (Istio/Linkerd), Ingress/Nginx/Envoy, API gateways

Security basics: secrets management, image scanning, Kubernetes security (OPA/Gatekeeper/Kyverno)

Message brokers/streaming: Kafka/RabbitMQ; caches: Redis

Cost optimization, capacity planning, performance tuning

Familiarity with SRE practices: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, runbooks, postmortems

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