Sre With KAFKA

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer with Kafka

Location: Irvine, CA

Duration: Long-Term Contract

The position requires Terraform and AWS Cloud knowledge along with Kafka. 
 

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.