Senior DevOps engineer

5+ years of professional software development experience. Hands‑on production experience with Kubernetes, including deployments, scaling, and stateful workloads. Strong proficiency with Docker, multi‑stage builds, image optimization, scanning, and supply‑chain security. Expertise with Helm or similar deployment/configuration tooling. Experience with a major cloud provider - Azure preferred, AWS acceptable. Familiarity with REST APIs, versioning, OAuth/OIDC, JWTs, and related security practices. Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases; familiarity with key‑value/document stores. Strong automated testing discipline: unit, integration, and end‑to‑end testing. Practical experience with Git and GitLab/GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and automated build/release tooling. Experience with asynchronous patterns: messaging, queues, and event streams. Experience with secrets management and key rotation Strong analytical reasoning, debugging expertise, and problem‑solving skills. Excellent communication and teamwork skills, collaborating across engineering, DevOps, and platform teams.