| Skill / Category |
Mandatory / Non-Mandatory |
Evaluation Focus |
Rationale |
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence |
Mandatory |
Dynatrace Observability Platform Administration Observability Engineering (Metrics, Logs, Traces & Events) OpenTelemetry Data Integration & Telemetry Management SLI/SLO Frameworks & Reliability Engineering Alert Engineering & Incident Prevention Cloud-Native SRE & Operational Excellence Incident Management & Problem Management Practices Observability Automation & Self-Service Platform Engineering Operational Resilience & Service Health Governance |
Core technology ownership for the role. |
| Kubernetes (GKE) Observability & Platform Monitoring |
Mandatory |
Monitoring containerized workloads, cluster health, performance analysis and troubleshooting |
Essential for cloud-native platform operations. |
| Istio Service Mesh Monitoring & Service Dependency Visibility |
Mandatory |
Service communication monitoring, dependency mapping, traffic observability and operational insights |
Required to understand complex service interactions. |
| Kafka Monitoring & Event Platform Observability |
Mandatory |
Monitoring brokers, partitions, topics, consumer lag, throughput, failures and resilience indicators |
Critical for supporting event-driven banking services. |
| Cross-Team Service Journey Monitoring & Integration Visibility |
Mandatory |
End-to-end monitoring across upstream and downstream dependencies and business-critical journeys |
Supports holistic operational visibility across the ecosystem. |
| TM Vault Observability & Platform Operations |
Preferred |
Experience monitoring Vault services, dependencies and operational health indicators |
Directly relevant to the target platform. |
| Distributed Systems Observability & Performance Engineering |
Preferred |
Monitoring large-scale distributed systems, dependency mapping and performance optimization |
Valuable for complex cloud-native environments. |
| FinOps, Cloud (GCP) Cost Management |
Preferred |
FinOps, Cloud Cost Observability & Cost-to-Service Mapping GCP Cost Management & Cloud Consumption Analytics |
Supports operational and financial efficiency objectives. Valuable for FinOps maturity and platform optimization. |
| Training, Enablement & Knowledge Transfer |
Preferred |
Development of training content, coaching and observability adoption across engineering teams |
Supports long-term organizational capability building. |