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Skill / Category	Mandatory / Non-Mandatory	Evaluation Focus	Rationale
Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ	Mandatory	Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations	Core technology ownership for the role.
Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery	Mandatory	Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing	Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.
Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns	Mandatory	Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures	Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence	Mandatory	End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability	Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities. Core expectation of the role. Essential for proactive platform support and reliability. Ensures service reliability in production.
Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting	Mandatory	Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support	Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation	Mandatory	Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency	Supports scalability and operational efficiency.
CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation	Mandatory	Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture	Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.
Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management	Mandatory	Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity	Critical for highly available banking platforms.
Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration	Mandatory	Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership	Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.
Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge	Preferred	Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments	Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.
TM Vault Integration & Operations	Preferred	Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations	Directly relevant to the target environment.
Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration	Preferred	API gateway management, security policies and integration governance	Supports broader integration architecture.
Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture	Preferred	Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication	Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.
	Preferred	Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics	Improves troubleshooting and system insights.
AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations	Preferred	Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management	Useful for supporting dependent platform services.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence	Preferred	SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets

Key Responsibilities

Skill / Category	Mandatory / Non-Mandatory	Evaluation Focus	Rationale
Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ	Mandatory	Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations	Core technology ownership for the role.
Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery	Mandatory	Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing	Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.
Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns	Mandatory	Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures	Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence	Mandatory	End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability	Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities. Core expectation of the role. Essential for proactive platform support and reliability. Ensures service reliability in production.
Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting	Mandatory	Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support	Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation	Mandatory	Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency	Supports scalability and operational efficiency.
CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation	Mandatory	Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture	Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.
Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management	Mandatory	Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity	Critical for highly available banking platforms.
Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration	Mandatory	Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership	Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.
Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge	Preferred	Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments	Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.
TM Vault Integration & Operations	Preferred	Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations	Directly relevant to the target environment.
Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration	Preferred	API gateway management, security policies and integration governance	Supports broader integration architecture.
Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture	Preferred	Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication	Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.
	Preferred	Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics	Improves troubleshooting and system insights.
AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations	Preferred	Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management	Useful for supporting dependent platform services.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence	Preferred	SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets

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