Good knowledge of Database and DB queries in Postgress & MongoDB
Good knowledge of performance monitoring tools like Newrelic, Datadog, Grafana
Good knowledge of performance profiling tools like Yourkit, JProfiler, JVisual VM
Exposure to Virtualization, K8, AWS, Azure and Unix flavors
Exposure to microservices benchmarking and horizontal scalability
Confident in complex determinate analysis, managing trade-offs between technical benefits, risk and efficiency
Very strong communicator, critical thinking, and natural in articulating complex technical topics and ideas to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Demonstrated success in providing clarity and delivering the sprint goals during ambiguities
Nice to have skills:
Exposure to working in auto-scaling, and redundant technologies is a huge plus
Familiar with Message Queues like Kafka, large Storage Systems like S3, and NoSQL DBs is a plus
Knowledge of scripting languages Shell script/Python/Perl
Hands-on experience in debugging production bottleneck issues.