Technical Acumen
Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines & GitHub Actions
Manual deployments
Automated deployments
Components of a CI/CD pipeline
Secrets Management
Containers (Docker and ContainerD)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Kubernetes management and visualization tools such as FreeLens (Lens) or Headlamp
CLI commands Kubectl
Logging and monitoring
Infrastructure as Code
Expertise in Terraform
Knowledge of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates and Bicep
Advanced scripting and automation
Linux - CLI - bash shell programming
Windows – PowerShell
Windows/Linux - Python
Knowledge of Change management process and CMDB
Management of tokens and certificates
Scripting for automation using BASH and/or Python
Knowledge of YAML and JSON
Knowledge of Ansible
Extensive Azure Key Vault and enterprise vault expertise for secure management of secrets, keys, certificates, application credentials, access policies, RBAC, rotation, auditing, and environment-specific configuration
Extensive knowledge and practical experience using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, Claude, or comparable AI assistants to enhance day-to-day engineering capabilities. This includes AI-assisted development and scripting, code review, documentation, deployment automation, environment configuration, operational troubleshooting, prompt design, research, and productivity improvement, while following responsible-use, security, privacy, and data-protection requirements.
Security - Vulnerability remediation, Security integration in pipelines, infrastructure access control RBAC
Hands-on knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), kubectl, and tools such as FreeLens (Lens) or Headlamp for cluster navigation, workload inspection, troubleshooting, and operational support
Knowledge of Helm and creating Helm packages
Experience troubleshooting and resolving urgent, high-visibility technical problems
Familiarity with Distributed Systems, Microservice architecture, and Containers
Soft Skills
Business acumen - professionalism, respect, ownership of their work
Whole leadership - Self-awareness, humbleness - understand what is needed for the job
Relationships - Ability to build and manage relationships, maturity
Global acumen - Understanding of how to work in a global environment
Time Management
Conflicting deadlines management
Dedication
Ability to pivot between assignments
Mentality of abundance
Ability to prioritize workload
Ability to discuss solutions not issues
Well-organized, excellent work ethic, attention to detail, and self-starting