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Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer

INGENworksIrvine, CA🇺🇸United States

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SeniorityLeader
Work modeOn Site
LocationIrvine, CA, United States
MicroservicesSpringSpring BootGitAWSSplunkDatadogJavaKafkaTerraformRESTKubernetesCI/CD

Job description

Job Title: Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA (Onsite)

Experience: 14+
Duration: Long Term Contract
On C2C

Core Technologies: Kafka | Spring Boot | AWS | Kubernetes

Role Overview-

We are seeking a Principal Architect / Principal Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes to lead architecture, engineering, modernization, and operational excellence for highly scalable cloud-native platforms.

Key Responsibilities-

• Define and lead end-to-end architecture for scalable, resilient cloud-native applications and platforms.

• Provide technical leadership for Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.

• Design and optimize Kafka clusters, including HA, replication, partitioning, security, performance, monitoring, and DR.

• Architect Spring Boot microservices and event-driven applications with focus on scalability, resiliency, and performance.

• Design and optimize AWS architectures, including EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch.

• Lead Kubernetes/EKS architecture, deployment, scaling, security, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

• Drive DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation using tools such as Terraform and GitHub/Harness.

• Lead complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical remediation.

• Mentor senior engineers and serve as the technical escalation point for complex issues.

Required Skills-

• Kafka: Administration, architecture, performance tuning, security, HA/DR, monitoring.

• Spring Boot/Java: Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, resiliency.

• AWS: Strong cloud architecture and hands-on engineering experience.

• Kubernetes: Architecture, EKS, deployments, networking, security, scaling, troubleshooting.

• DevOps: CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, Git, containerization.

• Observability: Datadog, Splunk, PrometheGrafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalent.

Experience

• 14+ years of software/platform engineering experience with significant architecture experience.

• Proven experience with large-scale distributed systems and production environments.

• Strong communication, technical leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.

• AWS/Kubernetes/Kafka certifications are a plus

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