infrastructure automation across dev, staging, and production

· **Database support**: Experience supporting customer-facing and self-hosted database deployments, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning

· **Data security**: Well versed in implementing incremental security controls such as Qualys integration with Azure, secrets management, and user/role management

· **Cost management**: Ability to estimate infrastructure and compute costs, optimize resource utilization, and communicate budget implications to stakeholders

· **Communication skills**: Strong ability to explain technical pipeline architecture, implementation timelines, and cost tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences

· Deep familiarity with microservices architectures, and ideally have seen them in operation at a global scale

· Proficiency with concepts and technologies used in software development, operations, security, cloud, microservices, container...