• Operating and evolving 100+ multi-cloud streaming clusters and related database infrastructure • Diagnosing and eliminating cross-layer failure modes • Designing safe upgrade and rollout strategies at scale • Improving observability, automation, and operational ergonomics • Partnering closely with database and platform teams to ensure safe scaling, partitioning, consumer fan-out, and query performance • Working directly with distributed systems behavior, Kubernetes scheduling dynamics, storage engines, compression trade-offs • Serving as a primary escalation point and on-call for relevant incidents • Owning the relationship with all system vendors, including WarpStream Labs and others.