Kafka engineer

Role: Kafka Engineer

Location: CA (Hybrid)

Duration : Long - Term

The candidate will deliver API - Platform Engineering by leading solution initiatives. They will recommend and re-engineer solutions to address complex incidents/issues, perform advanced troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, recommend solutions/fix bugs, identify toil, and recommend/develop automation solutions. Additionally, they will understand business requirements and provide solutions through the self-service platform, as well as participate in piloting new products.

Responsibilities:

• Strong experience with Kafka and AWS cloud, including building and operating solutions for high-scale distributed systems.
• Prior experience with enabling "Observability using tools for Distributed tracing, Event logging, APM Synthetic monitoring.
• Understanding of SRE Practices.
• Experience in Automation.
• Experience in building self-service platforms.
• Prior experience with web services and messaging protocols.
• Prior experience with Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Prior experience with public cloud providers (AWS).
• Ability to collaborate with teams and impact decisions at the interpersonal level.

Requirements:

Required:

• Cloud Computing
• Agile
• Amazon Web Services
• Apache Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Ansible
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Integration
• Root Cause Analysis
• Software Development Methodology
• Terraform

Preferred:

• Understanding of SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.