ops-engineering-skills

Helm, Kustomize, Operators, Istio, NGINX Ingress, Calico/Flannel, EKS/AKS/GKE, OpenShift/ROSA, K3s, Docker/containerd, and cert-manager skills.

35 skills

Operational skills for running production databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch tuning, high availability, configuration validation, and schema migration.

23 skills

Model packaging, feature stores, training pipelines, monitoring/drift, LLMOps, experiment tracking, and serving skills.

22 skills

Agent architecture, MCP server development, prompt/context engineering, evaluation, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration skills.

20 skills

Internal developer platform skills: no-code service catalog tools (Port/Cortex/OpsLevel), Humanitec Score workload specs, golden-path template design, and developer experience measurement.

20 skills

SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets management, supply-chain security, policy-as-code, and secure pipeline gate skills.

17 skills

CI/CD, GitOps, IaC, container release, artifact management, and deployment strategy skills.

16 skills

Observability and platform-engineering extras: Prometheus/Grafana, Kubecost, Velero backup/restore, Karpenter autoscaling, Backstage developer portal, and Kubernetes network policy/zero-trust.

16 skills

Tool-specific security scanning and runtime protection skills: Trivy, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud, Fortify, Sysdig Secure, Sealed Secrets, and External Secrets Operator.

15 skills

AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and on-prem landing zone, IAM, cost/FinOps, networking, storage, and disaster-recovery skills.

14 skills

Tool-specific infrastructure and automation skills beyond Terraform: AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, shell scripting, and Python automation for ops.

14 skills

Tool-specific pipeline skills: Jenkins (per-repo, centralized, Groovy), Bamboo, GitHub Actions (single-repo and centralized), GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, and Gitea.

13 skills

Messaging, streaming, and data-pipeline orchestration skills: Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS/Pulsar configuration and troubleshooting, and Airflow/Dagster/Prefect DAG authoring.

13 skills

Deep, tool-specific skills for the Argo project family: ArgoCD Application/ApplicationSet, Argo Workflows, Argo Rollouts, Argo Events, and multi-cluster GitOps.

11 skills

Service mesh and API gateway skills: Linkerd, Consul, Cilium eBPF, Kong, Apigee, gRPC troubleshooting, and API gateway rate-limiting/quota management.

11 skills

Serverless and alternative compute skills: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, Knative, Dapr, and HashiCorp Nomad.

10 skills

Incident and ITSM tooling skills: PagerDuty/Opsgenie on-call configuration, ServiceNow ITSM integration, ChatOps runbook automation, and Linear issue tracking.

6 skills

Site Reliability Engineering skills: SLI/SLO/error-budget design, incident response and on-call management, blameless postmortems, capacity planning/load testing, toil reduction, and chaos engineering.

6 skills

Engineering-level-scoped operational practice skills: runbook execution and escalation, independent solution design and technical review, technical roadmap ownership and cross-team coordination, and system design/technology selection with architecture decision records.

4 skills

Enterprise standards and compliance skills: CIS Benchmarks, cloud Well-Architected Framework reviews, SOC2/ISO 27001/PCI-DSS/NIST CSF mapping, and OWASP Top 10 secure coding standards.

4 skills

Enterprise tracking and documentation skills: Jira ticket workflow/comments best practices, and Confluence page authoring/governance.

3 skills

Tool-specific Kubernetes policy and governance skills: OPA/Gatekeeper, Fairwinds Polaris/Goldilocks, and Kyverno.

3 skills