5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE).
Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm/Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling.
Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries).
3+ years of experience developing microservices with Java and Spring Boot.
Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event-driven design patterns.
Experience containerizing and deploying Java applications to Kubernetes, including JVM tuning for container environments