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You'll be the go-to person for pipeline design, Kubernetes operations, and infrastructure reliability - someone who's been in the trenches of production-grade systems and can guide a team while staying hands-on. Experience &\nQualifications\n6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.\nProven track record of designing and operating production-grade Kubernetes environments at scale.\nPrior experience in a lead or senior individual contributor role mentoring engineers and driving DevOps best practices (good to have). Must-Have Skills CI/CD & Pipelines\nExpert-level proficiency in building, optimizing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines from scratch.\nDeep experience with tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.\nStrong understanding of pipeline security, artifact management, and deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling). Operating Systems & Fundamentals\nDeep understanding of Linux internals - processes, memory management, filesystems, networking, and IPC.\nSolid grasp of OS-level performance tuning, troubleshooting, and kernel parameters.\nStrong scripting skills (Bash, Python) for automation and tooling. Kubernetes (Deep & Thorough)\nHands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production.\nDeep knowledge of K8s architecture - control plane, kubelet, etcd, CNI, CSI, scheduler, and admission controllers.\nExperience with Helm, Kustomize, Operators, CRDs, and policy management.\nStrong understanding of workload lifecycle, resource management, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), and RBAC.\nFamiliarity with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress controllers. 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