Lead Software Engineer - Kafka
Salary: Open + Bonus
Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX
Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure Middleware administration and engineering
- In-depth expertise in Kafka administration, including cluster management, performance tuning, and security.
- Strong proficiency in IaC tools, specifically Ansible, Terraform and bash Scripting.
- Extensive experience with cloud automation and provisioning on AWS and Azure.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools, including GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins.
- Strong Scripting skills in languages like Python and Bash.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and manage highly available and scalable Kafka clusters.
- Monitor Kafka performance, troubleshoot issues and optimize configurations.
- Develop and maintain IaC using Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration Management.
- Create and maintain reusable IaC modules.
- Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure solutions on AWS and Azure.
- Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling and management using cloud-native tools and services.
- Deploy and Manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Rancher
- Troubleshoot container-related issues and optimize container performance.
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins.