Sr. Kafka Engineer

  • Irvine, CA
  • Posted 3 hours ago | Updated 3 hours ago

Overview

Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

API
Agile
Amazon Web Services
Ansible
Apache Kafka
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
Communication
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Energy
Git
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Messaging
Root Cause Analysis
SAFE
Software Development Methodology
Software Performance Management
Terraform
Web Services

Job Details

Role: Sr. Kafka Engineer

Irvine, CA (Hybrid- 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)

No 3rd Party candidates

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 Confluent Kafka and AWS cloud, including experience in 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 such as Code with Ansible and Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes.

Prior experience with public cloud providers (AWS).

Strong communication skills, high energy, take ownership and not afraid to engage with customers.

Ability to collaborate with teams and impact decisions at the interpersonal level.

Nice to have:

Understanding of SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.

Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.

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