- 10+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, platform engineering and software engineering.
- Expertise with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms.
- Hands-on coding experience (Go, Java, Python, or comparable).
- Experience designing large-scale, distributed cloud-native systems.
- Deep experience with IaC (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, GitOps) and CI/CD frameworks.
- Hybrid cloud architecture experience across AWS, Azure or GCP combined with on-premises environments.
- Foundation in networking, security models, API architecture and integration frameworks.
- Experience with service mesh, operator design, API gateways and event-driven architectures.
- Background in observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK) and SRE practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale consumer or gaming platforms.
- Certifications: RHCA, RHOCP and Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKAD, CKS).