Cloud (AWS)
EC2, EKS, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, RDS / Aurora (PostgreSQL, MySQL), Aurora Serverless v2, Aurora DSQL, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, EBS, ECR, IAM, KMS, SSM, VPC, ALB / NLB, Route 53, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, Step Functions, EventBridge, SNS, SQS, MSK, AWS MQ, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, Firehose, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Backup, AWS Config, AWS Organizations, Control Tower, Inspector, Secrets Manager, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Cross-Account IAM, Cost Explorer, Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor.
AI-Augmented Operations / LLMOps
Claude Code, ChatGPT (Codex), GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Perplexity, AWS Bedrock, MCP (Model Context Protocol), Hugging Face — AI-driven RCA generation, hook-based agent guardrails, MCP integrations with Datadog / PagerDuty / Atlassian / PaaS, prompt-engineered investigation pipelines.
Containers & Orchestration
Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, Argo Workflows, OpenShift, Rancher, Istio, NGINX Ingress, Traefik, Cert-Manager, External-DNS, External Secrets, Sealed Secrets, Lens, k9s, RBAC, HPA — blue-green and canary deploys, GitOps. Familiar with AKS, GKE.
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, Terragrunt, Terraform Cloud / Enterprise, Atlantis, Spacelift, Pulumi, AWS CDK, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef — policy-driven change workflows.
CI / CD & Release
Jenkins, GitLab CI / CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Harness, Argo Workflows, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, Maven, Gradle, Git, Bitbucket — artifact promotion, deployment gates, rollback readiness.
Observability
Datadog, PagerDuty, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic, OpenTelemetry, Fluentd, Fluent Bit, Vector, Logstash, Beats, Statuspage — APM, traces, RUM, synthetics, SLI / SLO, MTTR, post-mortems.
Databases & Data
Aurora PostgreSQL, Aurora Serverless v2, Aurora DSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, ElastiCache, etcd, Memcached, OpenSearch, Solr, Hazelcast, ActiveMQ, Kafka, MSK, RabbitMQ, Athena, Glue, Kinesis, Firehose — query tuning, EXPLAIN plans, index audits, parameter-group hardening, blue-green engine upgrades.
Security & DevSecOps
IAM least-privilege, KMS, HashiCorp Vault, Azure Key Vault, SonarQube, Fortify, SAST, DAST — secrets management, audit logging, log4j2 hardening, OpenSSF Scorecard.
Networking & Edge
VPC, ALB / NLB, Route 53, CloudFront, CloudFront Functions, Lambda@Edge, Cloudflare, Akamai, OpenVPN, Site-to-Site VPN, AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink — security groups, NACLs, ALB session stickiness, ALB IP rotation.
Service Mgmt & Collaboration
PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Salesforce, Slack workflows, Microsoft Teams — incident response, change management, customer escalation, runbook authoring.
Programming & Scripting
Python (boto3, python-docx), Bash / Zsh, SQL, YAML, JSON, HCL, Groovy, jq, yq, Java (read-level, bytecode / javap forensics).
Multi-Cloud
Azure (AKS, Azure DevOps, Key Vault, Container Instances) and GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud IAM) for cross-cloud operations.
Practices
Cost Optimization (FinOps), Performance Engineering (JMeter, k6), Postgres / MySQL tuning, JVM bytecode forensics, capacity planning, disaster recovery, change management, customer escalation communication.