- Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 2-3 years of related experience
- Advanced knowledge of the Administration of a Kubernetes or equivalent platform
- Certification as a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent.
A strong understanding of Kubernetes workload architecture and design patterns
- Experience implementing and supporting either a Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Container as a service (CaaS) solution
- Experience of scripted management of modern cloud based infrastructure
- Experience with virtualized infrastructure (VMWare, AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Ability to code or script in at least one language (Java, Go, Python, Ruby, Perl, bash, etc.)
- Experience with Terraform or Terraform Enterprise, CI/CD tools
- Proficiency in Linux command line interface and system administration tasks.
- Experience using cloud monitoring solutions (e.g. Datadog)
- Experience with GitOps and Flux
- Proven experience working with infrastructure components (operating systems, compute, storage, networking, distributed systems, big data, cloud, containers, etc.) and solid understanding of the rest and how they impact services
- Experience with Systems, Application and Network performance/availability monitoring and analysis using tools such as tcpdump and wireshark
- Transparent evidence of troubleshooting and resolving issues in an application or PaaS environment