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You’ll have direct ownership and a real voice in the architecture, standards, and technologies we put into production. The platform will include production RKE2 clusters managed with Rancher, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), hybrid workloads, and disaster recovery, while storage, networking, and data-platform designs are still open to influence. This hands-on role spans racks to cloud, and what you help design will become what the company runs. 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