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During release cycles, you focus on planning and executing deployments alongside the client. Between releases, you focus on improving the infrastructure and tooling that supports them: CI/CD pipelines, runbooks, observability, automation.\nThe right person for this role is comfortable in Kubernetes and Helm, knows their way around a Linux shell, and is fine flexing into US working hours when there's a deployment in flight. 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