* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or a related field.
* 6+ years of experience in code management, deployment processes, procedures, and tools in a DevOps or SRE role.
* Experience with monitoring tools (preferred: Dynatrace, Splunk, Datadog, Grafana, and New Relic).
* Proficiency in state-of-the-art observability trends, tools, products, and technologies.
* Ability to identify organization-wide gaps in the SRE practice and implement solutions that contribute to organizational transformation.
* Experience driving cross-organization adoption of new technologies or initiatives.
* Ability to influence senior management in selecting the right strategy, processes, and structures to transform the organization into a modern SRE team.
* Successful experience supporting a cloud production environment (strong preference for Azure).
* Competency in one or more programming languages for automation (Python strongly preferred).
* Knowledge of cloud deployment tools and methodologies (ideally Ansible, but Terraform, Azure DevOps, etc. are also considered).
* Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Docker architecture and associated tools.
* Experience with at least one configuration management solution (e.g., Chef, Ansible, AWS CodeDeploy).
* Proficiency with repository and pipeline-related tools (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis, CircleCI).
* Experience with implementing and using various application and infrastructure monitoring tools.