- 12+ years in IT infrastructure, with 6+ years hands-on AWS architecture and operations in enterprise/managed-services environments.
- AWS Qualified-level certification (Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Qualified) strongly preferred.
- Deep, hands-on expertise across VPC, EC2, ECS, Lambda, RDS, IAM (execution), EventBridge, CloudWatch, and AWS-native backup/DR.
- Strong Terraform / IaC engineering — state management, modular design, pipeline-driven deployment.
- Working knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub) and change management integration (ServiceNow/CAB).
- Familiarity with enterprise observability (Dynatrace, Datadog, Instana, CloudWatch) and ITSM operations.
- Proven ability to operate within client-owned cloud governance (Landing Zone, Control Tower, IAM policy) — clear on the execute-vs-govern boundary.
- Solid grasp of hybrid estates and coordination with on-prem/middleware teams.