Role: Kafka Senior Engineer/Architect

Location: Santa Ana, CA--Hybrid

Description:

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 Kafka, including experience in building and operating solutions for high-scale distributed systems.
• 7+ years of technical leadership helping engineering and operations teams thrive.
• 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 as Code with Ansible and Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Prior experience with public cloud providers (Azure and AWS).
• Ability to collaborate with teams and impact decisions at the interpersonal level.

Nice to have:

• Experience in RabbitMQ and Tibco Messaging tools.
• Experience in coding using Python/Angular/Java.
• Understanding of SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.
• Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git.