What You'll Need: Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with Linux-based systems, including administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting in production environments. Deep familiarity with Kubernetes — enough to design workloads, debug failures, and make informed architectural decisions. Strong understanding of distributed messaging systems (Kafka and/or RabbitMQ) Deep experience with MongoDB (or comparable NoSQL): schema design, query optimization, index tuning, maintenance operations, and understanding of internals — working closely with the data layer. Proficiency with Docker and containerized application design. Working knowledge of observability tooling — Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging stacks — and the ability to instrument and interpret systems using them. Solid scripting in Bash and Python; comfortable writing production-grade automation. Experience with configuration management tools, Chef
