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Merely operating a process designed by someone else does not qualify.\nHands-on today: Wrote production infrastructure code within the past 12 months and can explain their Terraform modules and state design.\nBuilt CI/CD pipelines: Designed deployment pipelines used by multiple teams, including rollback mechanisms and release gates.\nBuilt observability: Set up production metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting, and can explain how they measure customer experience, not just server CPU and memory.\nReal incident command: Led the response to a major customer-facing outage and ran the post-incident review.\nCustomer-facing SaaS experience: Operated production systems for external customers with uptime commitments. Internal tools or batch platforms alone do not qualify.\nAWS in production: AWS was their primary production cloud.\nSmall-team coach: Grew or coached 2-5 engineers. 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