Senior Kafka Engineer @ Irvine, CA

  • Irvine, CA
  • Posted 16 hours ago | Updated 16 hours ago

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 06 Month(s)

Skills

AWS
SRE
Automation
Web Services
Ansible
Terraform
Openshift
Kubernetes
AWS or Azure
SDLC
Jenkins
Git
Agile
Tibco or RabbitMQ
Kafka

Job Details

Senior Kafka Engineer

Irvine, CA (hybrid 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

Start date: ASAP

The candidate will Deliver API - Platform Engineering by leading solution initiatives. Recommend and re-engineer solutions to address complex incidents/issues. Advanced troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and recommending solutions/fixing bugs. Identify toil and recommend/develop automation solutions. Understand business requirements and provide solutions through the self-service platform. Participate in piloting new products.

Qualifications:

  • Strong experience with Kafka and AWS cloud, including experience in building and operating solutions for high-scale distributed systems.
  • 7+ years of technical leadership helping engineering and operations teams thrive.
  • 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 such as Code with Ansible and Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes.
  • Prior experience with public cloud providers (Azure and AWS).
  • Ability to collaborate with teams and impact decisions at the interpersonal level.

Nice to have:

  • Experience in RabbitMQ and Tibco Messaging tools.
  • Experience in coding using Python/Angular/Java.
  • Understanding SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.
  • Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.

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