Kubernetes: You should have hands-on knowledge about Kubernetes cluster setup either on premise or using cloud solutions (e.g. GKE or EKS). Istio or operators should be familiar concepts for you.

Networking: You should be fluent in networking. It works better if you have a good understanding of Linux. We operate across several clouds, so you need to be familiar with advanced networking concepts in the cloud, like VPC peering and across zones, regions, site-to-site VPNs, and cloud networking.

PostgreSQL: You should have a great understanding of SQL. You should have excellent knowledge about how PostgreSQL works. Concepts like MVCC, query planning, deadlock avoidance, and replication should be familiar.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll need to have at least basic programming knowledge. We usually automate our tasks. You will feel more comfortable if you are also a fellow programmer. We are also familiar with SRE, DevSecOps and FinOps concepts, with confidence in applying best practices of cloud computing on at least one of the major cloud providers. Our knowledge of Linux is excellent, and we have no issue using strace and ltrace. Shell scripting is easy for us. We know everything-is-an-fd, and we understand how containers work. We hope you are the same.

With you, we want to tackle challenges like moving towards micro-service-based architecture, introducing the Kubernetes platform and Infrastructure as Code, increasing our automation, supporting seamless switch-over from one cloud to another across all our services whether stateful or stateless, and supporting our customers in multiple regions using different clouds. We want to do this while maintaining uptime and developing new features daily.

Kingston Stanley