Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering roles

Hands-on experience managing production workloads across multiple cloud platforms

Relevant cloud and technology certifications are highly desirable

Cloud Infrastructure Management

Design, deploy, and manage multi-cloud infrastructure across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Architect and implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud solutions

Manage cloud resources including compute instances and networking components

Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity plans for cloud workloads

Migrate on-premises applications and services to cloud environments with minimal disruption

Optimize cloud resource utilization and implement auto-scaling policies

Maintain comprehensive documentation of cloud architectures, configurations, and runbooks

Kubernetes & Container Orchestration

Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers

Implement and maintain container orchestration strategies for microservices architectures

Configure and manage Kubernetes resource objects

Manage Kubernetes cluster upgrades, scaling, and performance optimization

Troubleshoot complex container and orchestration issues in production environments

Implement multi-cluster and multi-region Kubernetes deployments for high availability

Service Mesh & Advanced Networking

Design, deploy, and manage Istio service mesh for microservices communication and observability

Configure Istio traffic management, including virtual services, destination rules, and gateways

Implement advanced traffic routing (canary deployments, A/B testing, traffic splitting) using Istio

Deploy and manage Istio observability components (telemetry, distributed tracing, service graphs)

Implement circuit breaking, retries, timeouts, and fault injection for resilience testing

Configure Istio ingress and egress gateways for external traffic management

Monitor and optimize service mesh performance and resource utilization

Implement multi-cluster service mesh architectures across different cloud providers

Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing

Deploy, configure, and manage HAProxy for high-performance load balancing and reverse proxy

Implement HAProxy ACLs, backend routing, health checks, and session persistence

Design and implement Nginx as reverse proxy for web applications and API gateways

Configure Nginx for rate limiting and request filtering

Implement Nginx load balancing algorithms and upstream health monitoring

Manage Nginx Plus features for advanced traffic management and monitoring

Optimize HAProxy and Nginx performance for high-throughput environments