·        AWS services, including EC2, Transit Gateways, NAT Gateways, Elastic Load Balancers, Security Groups, Lambdas, and S3

·        Linux administration and management, particularly in Ubuntu and in RedHat-compatible systems such as CentOS

·        Infrastructure as code (IaC) tools including the Hashicorp ecosystem (Consul, Nomad, Packer, Terraform, and Vault)

·        Configuration management with Saltstack or other tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

·        Containerization, particularly with Docker, and orchestration and management of containers using Nomad or other tools such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Rancher

·        Observability and metrics platforms such as Humio, Prometheus, Telegraf, Vector, Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Grafana, and InfluxDB

·        Confluent Kafka and Confluent Kafka Connect deployment and management

·        One or more high-level languages, such as Python or Ruby

·        General networking; the OSI model, TCP/IP, UDP, routing, NAT, and load balancing

·        OpenVPN, IPSec, and vendor VPN technologies such as Tailscale, Pritunl, or Aviatrix

·        Automation and Continuous Integration (CI) tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins

·        Git and version control workflows, particularly on GitHub