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The right person understands where distributed systems fail and has learned the hard lessons that come from operating Kubernetes and cloud platforms at scale.\n\nThe ideal candidate has deep hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and multi‑region platform reliability. 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