Curated set of practical skills, playbooks and examples you can reference in interviews or docs.
Kubernetes (EKS) — Production Patterns
Multi-tenant namespaces, network policies, PodDisruptionBudgets, HorizontalPodAutoscaler with custom metrics,
vertical pod autoscaler for stateful workloads, and GitOps-driven manifests (Helm + Kustomize).
CI/CD — Declarative, Secure Pipelines
Jenkins & GitHub Actions templates implementing PR gating, canary & blue-green releases, automated rollbacks,
artifact signing, and secrets via HashiCorp Vault / AWS Secrets Manager.
Infrastructure as Code
Modular CloudFormation + Terragrunt patterns; immutable infra; policy-as-code with OPA/Gatekeeper for compliance checks.
Observability & SLO-driven Engineering
Prometheus metrics + Loki logs + Grafana dashboards; SLOs & error budgets tied to alerting and release decisions.
Automated runbooks (PagerDuty + Opsgenie integrations).
Cost & Capacity Optimization
Automated rightsizing pipeline, spot instance strategies, cluster autoscaler tuning, and scheduled non-prod shutdowns
to reduce costs without impacting SLAs.
Security & Compliance
IAM least-privilege policies, ECR vulnerability scanning, AWS WAF rules, automated infra scanning (tfsec, checkov), and
runtime security with Falco.