Hands-on expertise across a modern engineering stack, including: cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP); cloud-native architecture patterns (microservices, serverless, event-driven systems); containers and Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, or GKE) or comparable orchestrators; infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or comparable); CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or comparable); production-grade observability tooling; and strong production proficiency in at least one of. Technical Leadership & Culture Serve as a player-coach technical leader, actively participating in technical planning, design reviews, implementation tradeoffs, code and architecture reviews, proofs-of-concept, and reference implementations alongside Technology teams.