• Operate, scale, and support Kubernetes clusters in production environments • Manage and optimize AWS EKS and core AWS services • Support hybrid infrastructure (cloud + on-prem) • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform • Improve system reliability, availability, performance, and monitoring • Troubleshoot complex system, container, and networking issues • Automate operational tasks using scripting (Python preferred, Go a plus) • Collaborate with development and platform teams to improve CI/CD and reliability

• Stand up a greenfield GitHub Enterprise Cloud environment and define scalable org/team/repo governance. • Establish practical standards (repo setup, branching, PR controls, lifecycle management) that support secure innersource collaboration. • Integrate with Azure Entra for SSO and enforce enterprise authentication and least privilege RBAC models. • Implement enterprise policies and audit logging/monitoring patterns to support oversight and compliance. • Reconnect or build a development + production pipeline aligned with secure SDLC practices and platform guardrails. • Plan and execute migration of one selected repository into GitHub Enterprise Cloud and validate integrity, permissions, and pipeline functionality. • Enable GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) (code scanning, secret scanning, dependency review/policies) and define basic governance/triage expectations. • Enable GitHub Copilot and deliver a structured remote Copilot Hackathon experience for a small developer group. • Produce clear architecture/governance documentation and lead knowledge transfer so the client can operate the platform post engagement.

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and SRE engineers including performance management, coaching, career development, and hiring. • Establish clear goals, expectations, and success metrics for the team; own and track team OKRs. • Foster a culture of operational excellence, ownership, reliability, and continuous improvement. • Partner closely with Engineering, Platform, Security, IT, and Product leaders to align infrastructure strategy with business and product goals. • Perform capacity planning, workload prioritization, and on-call rotations to ensure sustainable team operations. • Act as an escalation point for major incidents and drive actionable postmortems and systemic improvements. • Actively design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/GCP/Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.). • Architect and operate CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, safe, and reliable software delivery. • Lead hands-on efforts in reliability, scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization. • Drive improvements in observability (logging, metrics, tracing), alerting, and incident response. • Work directly in production systems, including participating in on-call rotations when necessary. • Partner with application and platform teams to improve developer experience, deployment patterns, and operational readiness. • Evaluate, introduce, and standardize DevOps tools and practices across the organization.

• Architectural Leadership: Design high-availability (AlwaysOn), data replication, schema migration (for VM/containerized workloads), disaster recovery, and scalable data architectures that support global, high-traffic applications. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform to provision cloud resources and Chef for configuration management to ensure a consistent, repeatable SQL Server environment. • Advanced Automation: Develop sophisticated PowerShell modules to automate complex database lifecycle tasks, from automated patching and backups to performance drift detection. • Performance Engineering: Act as the final point of escalation for deep-level SQL Server performance tuning, including query optimization, indexing strategies, and hardware/storage throughput analysis. • Cloud Evolution: Design and implement modernization plan to migrate SQL Server workloads from IaaS (VM instances) to PaaS (GCP CloudSQL / AWS RDS for SQL Server). • Reliability & Stability: Implement SLIs/SLOs for database health and build automated self-healing mechanisms to minimize downtime.