***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***
***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***
A prestigious company is looking for a Principal Infrastructure Architect. This architect will drive the architectural vision of the companies real time data streaming computing. They will need expert level expertise with Kafka, Flink, and have a heavy Java application development background. This architect will work on streaming of both on prem and AWS cloud environments.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, create and review software application architectures specifically tailored for streaming use cases.
- Ensure fault tolerance, scalability, and low-latency processing in streaming applications.
- Drive optimization of streaming application performance by fine-tuning configurations, monitoring resource utilization, and identifying bottlenecks.
- Drive Implementation of best practices for efficient data serialization, compression, and network communication.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, including system diagrams, data flow, and component interactions.
- Evaluate and recommend tools and frameworks that enhance the performance and reliability of our streaming systems.
- Stay informed about industry trends related to Kafka, Flink, and Kubernetes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline
- 10+ years of experience architecting of mission critical Cloud and On-Prem real-time data streaming and event-driven architectures
- 10+ years of experience with Java
- 5+ years of specific Kafka and Flink experience
- 5+ years of Kubernetes experience
- Expert level knowledge of Kafka
- Expert level knowledge of Flink
- Ability to execute spikes and provide code samples demonstrating best practices when developing solutions on Kafka and Flink.
- Experience with DevOps tools, e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
