| Area | Expected expertise |
| Multi-cloud architecture | Strong hands-on experience with at least two of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, including monitoring integrations and cross-cloud connectivity. |
| Observability engineering | OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and log/trace technologies such as OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Loki, Tempo, or Jaeger. |
| Cloud-native monitoring | Integration with Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor/Application Insights, and Google Cloud Monitoring/Logging, as applicable. |
| Custom dashboard development | Ability to architect frontend applications using React, Angular, or equivalent, with backend services in Python, Go, Java, or Node.js. |
| Data and integrations | REST APIs, streaming/event-driven ingestion, time-series data, query optimisation, telemetry correlation, and common tagging standards. |
| SRE and cloud-native platforms | SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, incident management, Kubernetes, containers, distributed systems, and resilience patterns. |
| Engineering automation | CI/CD, Git-based development, infrastructure as code, automated testing, and deployment practices. |
| Technical leadership | Architecture ownership, developer mentoring, code reviews, technical planning, and hands-on troubleshooting. |