Management of AKS clusters in production (cluster provisioning, upgrades, node pool management, scaling, and lifecycle operations [not just deploying applications onto existing clusters]).
Kubernetes internals (networking [CNI, ingress, service mesh], RBAC, secrets management, resource quotas, and troubleshooting cluster-level issues).
Infrastructure as Code for provisioning/managing AKS (IaC; Terraform and/or Bicep).
Python (Automation, tooling, and scripting around cluster operations and CI/CD workflows).
CI/CD pipeline design and implementation for containerized workloads (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).