Qualifications: 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles with end-to-end ownership of delivery and operations, including deployment, upgrade, rollback, monitoring, and troubleshooting. 3+ years of proven direct management experience leading teams of 5+ people, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and prioritization under pressure. Experience leading through senior individual contributors and technical stakeholders in a small or mid-sized organization, with clear ownership, aligned priorities, and effective execution. Demonstrated ability to lead broad platform and operational engineering scopes with clear priorities and predictable execution. Strong architecture and systems design capability, including standardization, technical tradeoff analysis, operability, reliability, and security considerations. Strong Kubernetes experience in real operational environments, including deployments, upgrades, troubleshooting, networking, and storage. Strong CI/CD and release engineering experience, including reliable pipeline design, artifact and version management, quality gates, and consistent delivery outcomes through automation and standards. Strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation experience (Terraform, scripting in Python/shell). Experience with observability and operational telemetry platforms, including Elastic-based environments, is an
