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system reliability.\nMentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement,\nand blameless learning.\nSkill Requirements\nRequired Skills and Experience\n8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.\nStrong hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD\ntools.\nDeep understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, toil reduction, and\nincident management.\nProven experience with incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and oncall\noperations.\nStrong understanding of cloud-native architecture and hybrid infrastructure.\nProficiency in scripting languages such as Shell and Python.\nExperience with observability and APM tools including AppDynamics, Splunk, Splunk\nObservability Cloud, Azure Application Insights, and Datadog.\nStrong understanding of distributed tracing, log analytics, and alerting strategies.\nExperience implementing 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