Cloud & Networking | Strong fundamentals in GCP (or AWS): VPC design, shared VPC, HA VPN, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud NAT, BGP routing, and Private Service Connect. |
Kubernetes & Compute | Production experience with GKE or EKS, including workload identity, autoscaling, and multi-cluster patterns. |
Infrastructure as Code | Modular, reusable Terraform with remote state management. |
CI/CD | Pipeline-driven delivery for infrastructure and application workloads via GitHub Actions or similar. |
Auth & Identity | Workforce Identity Federation, OIDC/SAML with Okta, IAM design, and service-to-service authentication. |
Security | Least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption (CMEK/GMEK, KMS), and secrets management. |
Python | Solid working proficiency for tooling, automation, and platform services. |
Data & Lakehouse | Hands-on with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) or comparable platforms; strong schema design for large-scale timeseries and relational workloads. |
Performance Optimization | Proven ability to tune queries, indexes, and pipelines against billion-row datasets. |
Agentic AI & Generative AI / LLMs | Experience with Agentic AI, prompt engineering and RAG systems (e.g., LangChain, Hugging Face). |
Debugging | Systematic root-cause analysis across distributed cloud systems, especially in networking and connectivity. |
Frontend | Working familiarity with React or similar for internal tools and platform dashboards. |