Required Experience Hands-on engineer delivering distributed, cloud-native systems Deep expertise in Kubernetes, especially stateful applications Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EBS, IAM, VPC) Solid background in Go or Java services and service modernization Experience with Kafka or similar distributed/streaming platforms Solid background with Helm, Operators, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred) Strong understanding of failure modes, scaling, and data durability Nice to Have Experience adapting legacy or non-cloud-native Java apps to Kubernetes Multi-region or globally distributed system design Experience with service mesh and advanced networking patterns