Technical / Functional Skills 

• Strong DevSecOps and Cloud Native ecosystem skillset
• Version Control Systems (Git, GitLab)
• Programming Languages (C/C++, Go, Python)
• Microservice architectures (12-factor app development)
• Infrastructure/Container Provisioning/Orchestration Systems (Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker/containerd/podman)
• Kubernetes Distributions (k3s, RKE2, Talos, TKG)
• IaC and Control Plane Management (Crossplane, Cluster API, Terraform, Pulumi)
• Continuous Integration (GitLab CI, Tekton, Argo Workflows)
• Secure Software Supply Chain Concepts (sigstore, trivy)
• GitOps (Flux CD, Argo CD)
• Service Mesh (Istio, LinkerD)
• Ingress / API Gateways (Traefik, Istio IngressGateway, Kong)
• Policy-as-Code Engines (OPA Gatekeeper, Kyverno)
• Kubernetes Container Network Interface (CNI) (Calico, Cilium)
• Secure Runtimes (gVisor, Kata Containers)
• Platform One’s Big Bang, Iron Bank
• Airgap Deployment Management (Zarf)
• Network Protocol Analysis (Wireshark, Tcpdump)
• Network Firewalling and Filtering (iptables, nftables, eBPF)
• Network Tunneling Protocols (WireGuard, IPsec, GRE, VXLAN)
• Emulator/Virtualization Technologies (VMware, QEMU)
• Observability Stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic, Kibana)
• Network, Host, Container Security Products (ACAS, Prisma/Twistlock, NeuVector, Anchore, Kubescape)
• Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Equinix Metal, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, Vultr)
• Desired Certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)