The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise alongside the strategic mindset to define long-term infrastructure direction, bridging development, operations, security, and product teams to deliver software reliably and at scale. Practical understanding of AI/ML as applied to DevOps - including AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer), AIOps platforms for anomaly detection, and LLM-powered automation for incident triage and runbook generation.