• 3 to 5 years in platform, infrastructure, or SRE — with at least 2 years focused on cloud infrastructure or developer platforms. • Familiar in cloud-native architecture: Kubernetes at scale, managed cloud services, networking, identity federation, and multi-tenancy patterns across AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Proven ownership of complex, multi-month platform initiatives — you’ve involved from whiteboard to production, managing ambiguity and risk throughout. • Familiar with IaC and GitOps fluency — Terraform or Pulumi, ArgoCD — with experience standardising platform tooling and deployment patterns across engineering teams. • Hands-on experience with AI/ML infrastructure: model serving, inference pipelines, GPU resource management, or LLM integration patterns. • Ability to understand through technical credibility — in design discussions and alignment, and raising quality • Experience in enterprise environments with familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR. • Strong communication — you contribute to the design docs, maintain useful ADRs, and should be able to explain architectural decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.