Formula: Current role + credentials + achievement + why you are here.
Answer:
"I am a Cloud Operations Engineer at the Royal Horticultural Society where I own cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure. Day to day: EKS and AKS clusters, Terraform and Bicep infrastructure, security posture, cost management.
I hold the full CNCF Kubestronaut certification, all five Kubernetes exams including CKS, and I am an AWS Community Builder. Seven years in IT, progressed from helpdesk to cloud engineering.
Most proud of: an automated Kubernetes upgrade pipeline using AI-assisted changelog analysis in GitHub Actions that ran four consecutive minor version upgrades in one day.
I am here because I want larger scale and deeper technical challenge."
Deliver in 90 seconds. Practise out loud. Tailor the last sentence to the company.