Systems Engineer III

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Company: Inabia Software & Consulting Inc.

Location: Baltimore, MD 21215

Description:

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

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