Site Reliability Engineer with Kafka

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Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, INGENworks, is seeking the following.

Role Details

• Location: Irvine, CA
• Duration: Long-Term Contract

Position Summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• Understanding of SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.