Data Systems Engineer - ELK/Kafka/Linux

Job Title: Data Engineer - ELK/Kafka/Linux
Location: Alpharetta, GA or Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid 3 Days onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Job id - MOR2JP00017117

Important Update on 1/9-

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Role: Data Systems Engineer - ELK/Kafka/Linux
Location: Alpharetta, GA or Menlo Park, CA
Interview Process:

1. Screening of Technical Background - check linux exp (Team member - 1hr)
2. Technical Panel (in person)

Bachelor's Degree: Not a hard requirement but a BIG PLUS
Industry Background: Plus
Years of experience: 7-15 years Exp

Must:

• Need to have strong working knowledge on Linux platform
• Application Development Exp - Python (#1) - Ruby or Shell (#2)
• Need to be able to run the application within Linux - debug - understand when they run the application there is a memory cpu, etc

? ELK (Elastic Search) Exp
? Kafka building pipeline with ELK and Kafka
? Strong communication, Team Player and someone who is open to learning and getting their hands dirty.
? Ability to learn - Curiosity
Plus:

• Fling
• Snowflake Database Exp
• Spark Data processing
• Good Data Analysis Background
• ELK Certification
• Observability and Data Analysis

D2D:

• This person will not only be doing the pipeline development, but will work in large sacle cluster setting.
• Will requires the understanding of scalability in the kafka environment
• This person will ensure the jobs are up and running, debug it and support the 100s of customers who use their system
• Be the person to support those people

? Pipeline development using Kafka, ELK and Hycon
? Will need a strong knowledge of linux because that's where they deploy their jobs in the 100s
? Pipeline is within kafka and almost all the data is writing within ELK (need to understand how the data is stored)
? This is a diverse background!
Misc:

• If the candidate is a data engineer, they also need to be an date engineer/application developer
• They need core applications development. Not only know shell/python development.

? Team works directly within a linux platform (very important)
? Will do Development, Deployment and Support
Struggles while reviewing resumes:
Sees a lot of cookie cutter resumes that match that JD to a \"T\".

Job Description:

• RTOI Data Engineer
• Realtime operation intelligence team in client Enterprise Computing is responsible to stream terabytes of data daily.
• Client has built job frameworks to run large scale ETL pipelines with Kafka, ElasticSearch ELK, Snowflake, Hadoop.
• Client applications run both onperm and on the cloud.
• There are hundreds of dashboards built for business and operations to provide insight and actionable items at realtime.

Client is looking for streaming, data engineer:

• Understand distributed systems architecture, design and tradeoff.
• Design and develop ETL pipelines with a wide range of technologies.
• Able to work on full cycle of development including defining requirement, design, implementation, testing, deployment.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate with various teams.
• Able to learn new technologies and work independently.

Requirements:

• 5 years of application development experience, at least 2 years data engineering with Kafka.
• Working experience writing and running applications on Linux.
• 5 years of coding experience with at least one of the languages: Python, Ruby, Java, C/C++, GO.
• SQL and database experience.

Optional:

• AWS or other cloud technologies.
• ElasticSearch ELK

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Pay Range: $65-70/hr.
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