Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Kubernetes, Azure API Management (APIM), Kong, IBM API Connect (APIC), observability tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Instana
Roles & Responsibilities
- Strong expertise in Microservices architecture with practical experience designing, deploying, and supporting distributed systems in production environments
- Deep hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes (deployment management, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting, cluster operations) with a focus on reliability, resilience, and performance
- Proficiency with API Gateway platforms such as Azure API Management (APIM), Kong, and IBM API Connect (APIC) for traffic management, rate limiting, routing, and API observability
- Experience with observability tooling, including Splunk, AppDynamics, Instana, or similar solutions covering log analytics, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerting, & SLO-based monitoring
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventative measures
- Familiarity with SRE best practices, including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, post mortems, automation, and continuous improvement
- Experience with performance tuning, capacity planning, and improving system reliability through scalable architectures and elimination of toil
