25 years in DevOps / SRE / Infra / Production Support or similar role.

Hands-on experience with AWS and other cloud providers.

Strong in at least one scripting language:

Bash / Shell

Python

PowerShell

Bonus if comfortable with Node.js scripts or simple tooling

Experience managing Bitbucket Pipelines and/or AWS tooling (Having GitHub Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines, GitLab CI, Jenkins is a plus).

Comfortable with Linux servers (SSH, systemd, logs, networking basics).

Experience with containers, Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience with monitoring/logging stacks (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Loki, Datadog, etc.).

Basic understanding of networking concepts: DNS, TLS/SSL, load balancers, VPCs, security groups/firewalls.

Able to read application logs and stack traces and work with developers to isolate issues.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.).

Exposure to security best practices (least privilege, secrets management, patching).

Experience with database ops basics (backups, restores, connectivity issues, slow queries triage with DBAs/devs).

Prior background in production application support or NOC operations.

Image Other important factors: Behavioral / Ways of Working

Calm under pressure during incidents; doesnt panic, doesnt hand-wave.

Likes troubleshooting and actually closing loops, not just workarounds forever.

Communicates clearly especially when something is broken or delayed.

Comfortable saying I dont know yet, heres what Ive checked so far.

Can work with multiple teams (dev, QA, product, support) without drama.

DevOps Engineer