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Minimum QualificationsBachelor degree and 7+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 5+ years Kubernetes engineering. Minimum Knowledge, Skills and AbilitiesDeep expertise in Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, ArgoCD, GitHub ARC, Terraform, GitOps, cloud networking, observability, security and automation. 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