Ability to efficiently navigate and use Unix-based systems, shell scripting
Grasp of configuration management tools (Chef and Terraform preferred)
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g. CircleCI, AWS Codetools, Jenkins)
Exposure with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure services
Background with Docker and Kubernetes containers and container orchestration
Understanding and experience of all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (Design, Development, Testing, Debugging and Bug fixing)
Strong programming principles (data structures, algorithms, DRY, Object-oriented code)
Comfort searching through logs and reading code
Continual consideration of security and scale on SaaS-based applications