Skills

Enterprise-grade systems: design, build, automate, and operate. End-to-end — from networks and OS to cloud, Kubernetes, security, observability, and delivery.

Overview

Platforms & OS

Operating Systems

Expert

  • Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL)
  • Windows Server/Desktop
  • AD/Group Policy

Virtualization & Hypervisors

Advanced

  • VMware ESXi/vSphere
  • Proxmox VE
  • Hyper-V
  • KVM

Storage & Filesystems

Advanced

  • Ceph
  • ZFS
  • NFS
  • S3-compatible (MinIO)

Networking

Vendors & Gear

Expert

  • Cisco (R&S, ASA/Firepower)
  • Juniper
  • MikroTik
  • Palo Alto NGFW
  • Fortinet (FortiGate)
  • pfSense

Protocols & L4-7

Expert

  • BGP, OSPF
  • VLAN/VXLAN
  • IPsec, WireGuard, OpenVPN
  • Nginx, HAProxy, Traefik
  • WAF/CDN: Cloudflare
  • DNS: Route 53, BIND

Security & Identity

Hardening & Controls

Advanced

  • Baseline hardening
  • SELinux/AppArmor
  • Secrets rotation

IAM & SSO

Advanced

  • Keycloak (OIDC/OAuth2/SAML)
  • AD/LDAP
  • RBAC/ABAC

Secrets & PKI

Advanced

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • ACME/Let's Encrypt
  • mTLS

DevOps & Delivery

CI/CD

Expert

  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins

IaC & CM

Expert

  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Packer
  • cloud-init

Containers

Advanced

  • Docker/OCI
  • Image hardening
  • SBOM/attestations

Kubernetes & GitOps

Orchestration

Advanced

  • Kubernetes
  • Helm
  • Ingress, HPA, NetworkPolicies

GitOps

Advanced

  • Argo CD
  • Flux
  • Progressive delivery

Service Mesh & Policy

Working knowledge

  • Istio/Linkerd
  • OPA/Gatekeeper

Observability & SRE

Metrics & Logs

Expert

  • Prometheus/Alertmanager
  • Grafana/Loki
  • ELK / OpenSearch

Reliability

Advanced

  • SLO/SLI, error budgets
  • Incident response
  • Runbooks, post-mortems

Data & Messaging

Databases & Caches

Advanced

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Redis

Messaging/Streaming

Working knowledge

  • RabbitMQ
  • Kafka

Backup & DR

Advanced

  • Veeam
  • restic/Borg
  • Snapshots, immutability

Cloud

AWS

Advanced

  • EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, Route53

Azure

Working knowledge

  • VM, AKS, SQL, Storage, AAD

GCP

Working knowledge

  • GKE, Cloud SQL, Storage

Enterprise & Compliance

ITSM & Collaboration

Working knowledge

  • ServiceNow
  • Jira/Confluence
  • Slack/MS Teams

Standards

Working knowledge

  • ISO 27001
  • SOC 2
  • GDPR, NIST

Methods

Working knowledge

  • Architecture reviews
  • Cost/risk analysis
  • TOGAF-style viewpoints

Languages & Tooling

Languages

Advanced

  • Bash
  • Python
  • Go
  • PowerShell

Tooling

Advanced

  • Git, Make
  • Lint/format/scan
  • SBOM (Syft/Grype)

Economics & FinOps

Making technology economically sound: full-lifecycle costs, measurable value, and cloud cost governance at scale.

Governance & Compliance

Fit-for-purpose guardrails that enable speed without sacrificing control.

Business Enablement

Turning IT into a lever for growth, efficiency, and faster delivery.

Leadership

Teams, vendors, and change — managed with clarity and evidence.

Strategic IT

12–36 month horizons, risk posture, and resilience baked in.

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