Skill Set

2.5+ years of experience in building, deploying, maintaining, and leveraging the Prometheus Telemetry Platform (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Exporters, and Grafana) for real-time application metrics analysis
2.5+ years of experience in building, automating, deploying containerized full-stack polyglot applications on-top of Kubernetes infrastructure
3+ years of experience in developing, testing, and deploying Python Flask micro-services for Kubernetes environments
3+ years of experience in developing, testing, and deploying Ruby Sinatra Rack web applications and micro-services for Kubernetes environments
3+ years of experience in developing and deploying Heroku style applications
4+ years of experience in using data analytics logging platforms and tools like Splunk and Fluent Bit
4+ years of experience in developing, building, testing, and publishing Docker based application container images automatically with Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
4+ years of experience in developing, building, testing, packaging, and publishing RubyGems and PyPi software with CI/CD
4+ years of experience and expertise in systems and application deployment automation with the Chef Infrastructure as Code (IaC) framework
5+ years of experience and expertise in systems and application deployment automation with the Ansible IaC framework
5+ years of experience in developing and deploying Nginx powered web applications
9+ years of experience with the Ruby Programming Language
10+ years in highly demanding and fast development/operations production level environments
10+ years of experience in building, developing, and operating large scale global multi-regional active-active infrastructure
10+ years of experience and intimate familiarity in code review processes, principals and workflows
10+ years of experience and expertise with distributed revision control systems like git
12+ years of BASH scripting in production environments
15+ years of GNU/Linux Systems Administration
16+ years GNU/Linux OS Usage
17+ years Computer Systems Administration
Expertise in embedding with deeply technical software engineering teams and engineering application infrastructure for those teams
Expertise in engineering and operating in multi-operating-system, multi-architecture, polyglot software engineering environments
Expertise with practicing, testing and implementing the principals Infrastructure as Code
Expertise in container based application development, testing, and deployment in environments like Docker and Kubernetes
Expertise in designing, testing, implementing, and leveraging automation frameworks like Chef and Ansible primarily (Puppet and Salt secondarily) across global multi-thousand node environments
Expertise in systems package management, artifact generation, and artifact distribution
Expertise in GNU/Linux Operating System fundamentals
Expertise in writing detailed, useful technical documentation
Expertise in usage and deployment of static site generation software for automated and codified technical documentation
Expertise in writing and testing Object Oriented programming languages such as Ruby and Python
Expertise in maintaining, distributing, and releasing software written in compiled programming languages
Expertise in using Behavior-driven Test-driven Development processes and techniques with testing frameworks like RSpec and Pytest
Expertise in engineering driven incident/crisis response management, root cause analysis, and post incident review creation
Acute analytical approach to solving and debugging technical problems
Data driven philosophy when problem solving complex systems and applications incident scenarios
Advanced and excellent inter-personal, communication, written, and language skills
Advanced and excellent organizational and engineering project management skills