Systems Engineer III
Balitmore, MD
Contracted
Dexian
Mid Level
Kafka Engineering Job Description
Role Description
• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux.
• The candidate will be working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent cloud, Schema Registry, KStreams, and technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes to develop and manage infrastructure-related code on AWS platform.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Technical Expertise
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kafka and its various components.
• Strong Knowledge in Kafka Connect, KSQL and KStreams.
• Implementation experience in designing and building secure Kafka/streaming/messaging platform at enterprise scale and integration with other data system in hybrid multi-cloud environment.
• Experience in working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry, and KStreams Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale.
• Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance.
• Background in both Systems and Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge, experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda , EKS and VPC. Working knowledge of networking - VPCs, Transit Gateways, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
• Experience in monitoring and visualizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
• Competent developing new solutions in one or more of high-level language Java, Python.
• Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
• Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of Python and Shell Scripting.
• 3+ years of AWS DevOps experience.
• Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.
Preferred Technical Experience
• Certification in Confluent Kafka and/or Kubernetes is a plus
Role Description
• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux.
• The candidate will be working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent cloud, Schema Registry, KStreams, and technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes to develop and manage infrastructure-related code on AWS platform.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Required Technical Expertise
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kafka and its various components.
• Strong Knowledge in Kafka Connect, KSQL and KStreams.
• Implementation experience in designing and building secure Kafka/streaming/messaging platform at enterprise scale and integration with other data system in hybrid multi-cloud environment.
• Experience in working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry, and KStreams Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale.
• Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance.
• Background in both Systems and Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge, experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda , EKS and VPC. Working knowledge of networking - VPCs, Transit Gateways, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
• Experience in monitoring and visualizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
• Competent developing new solutions in one or more of high-level language Java, Python.
• Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
• Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of Python and Shell Scripting.
• 3+ years of AWS DevOps experience.
• Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.
Preferred Technical Experience
• Certification in Confluent Kafka and/or Kubernetes is a plus
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