Cloud Architect / Principal Engineer

Irvine, CA, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago
Full Time
Travel Required
Able to Sponsor
On-site
Depends on Experience
Fitment

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Job Details

Skills

  • Kafka
  • Spring Boot
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Spring Boot/Java
  • Microservices
  • REST APIs
  • event-driven architecture
  • resiliency
  • Architecture
  • EKS
  • deployments
  • networking
  • security
  • scaling
  • troubleshooting
  • DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform/IaC
  • Git
  • containerization
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Prometheus/Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry or equivalent

Summary

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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  • Dice Id: 91008924
  • Position Id: 9138101
  • Posted 9 hours ago
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