Solid understanding of Kubernetes and cloud networking concepts, including Services, EndpointSlices, Ingress controllers, Application and Network Load Balancers (ALB/NLB), Network Policies, CNI plugins, and troubleshooting cross-node or cross-cluster network communication. Advance developer-facing platform experiences by building and improving Terraform providers, Feature Gateway APIs, authentication and authorization frameworks, context-aware routing, and composition engines that translate declarative intent into managed cloud resources.