• Expertise in managing Kubernetes clusters (Azure Kubernetes Service, Elastic Kubernetes Service) through utilizing Terraform for Infrastructure-as-Code, including provisioning and managing the cluster, nodepools, and related resources.• Strong familiarity with a wide range of Azure services, spanning both IaaS (Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Networking) and PaaS (AKS, App Service, Storage, Service Bus, Event Hub) offerings.• Hands-on experience with the ELK stack (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana) for log management, including ingestion (Beats), transformation (Logstash), storage (Elasticsearch), and visualization (Kibana dashboards).• Setting up and managing Kafka for real-time message streaming, including transitioning from Azure Event Hub to Strimzi Kafka (Kubernetes) for cost optimization.• Experienced with Packer and Ansible for automating image creation and configuration management.• Proficiency with GitLab CI and ArgoCD for integrating automation into the CI/CD pipeline.• Experience with Prometheus for collecting and alerting on application metrics and integrating it with Grafana for real-time data visualization and monitoring dashboards.