Following

A1: Beginner
A2: Basic
B1: Intermediate
B2: Advanced Intermediate
C1: Advanced
C2: Proficient

Primarily hands-on: designing, building, and operating production infrastructure
A mix of people management and regular hands-on infrastructure work
Primarily people management, with limited hands-on work
No recent experience working directly with production infrastructure

I have personally implemented infrastructure controls and supported audits for HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, or comparable requirements
I have operated infrastructure subject to these requirements, but did not own controls or audit preparation
I have worked at a regulated company, without direct responsibility for infrastructure compliance
I have no experience operating infrastructure in regulated environments

I have built and operated production infrastructure extensively on both AWS and GCP
I have extensive production experience with one and limited production experience with the other
I have production experience with only one of these providers
My primary production experience is with other cloud providers
I have no hands-on production cloud experience

I have owned cluster architecture and operations, including upgrades, security, scaling, and troubleshooting
I have maintained existing clusters and resolved operational issues, with limited architectural ownership
I have deployed applications to Kubernetes, but did not manage the clusters
I have used Kubernetes only in development, training, or personal projects
Memory leaks or excessive allocations affecting interactive performance
I have no hands-on Kubernetes experience

I have designed and maintained reusable infrastructure code for production, including state management and deployment workflows
I have regularly modified existing Terraform or Pulumi code for production environments
I have used them only for basic provisioning or non-production projects
I have production Infrastructure as Code experience with other tools, but not Terraform or Pulumi
I have no hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience

I have defined monitoring and alerting, led incident response, and implemented fixes following root cause analysis
I have maintained monitoring and participated regularly in incident response
I have used existing dashboards and escalated incidents to other engineers
I have little or no responsibility for production monitoring or incident response

Company-wide infrastructure ownership, including architecture, security, reliability, and technical standards
End-to-end ownership of a critical infrastructure platform or domain
Ownership of specific infrastructure projects, with broader decisions made by another engineer
Execution of assigned infrastructure tasks with limited decision-making responsibility

I’m not currently in any other interview processes
Initial conversations with recruiters
Technical assessments or interviews
Final interviews

Yes, for full-time opportunities
Yes, for part-time or freelance opportunities
Yes, for either full-time or part-time/freelance opportunities
I’d like to learn more before deciding
No, I’m not interested