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.