Principal, Infrastructure Architecture - Kafka Messaging Systems
SALARY: $200k - $210K - $215K AND 30% BONUS
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL AND IS OPEN TO DALLAS, TX ALSO BUT CHICAGO IS FIRST CHOICE
3 DAYS ONSITE AND 2 DAYS REMOTE, HYBRID
Looking for someone to drive the architectural vision of core real time data streaming compute infrastructure platform. You will need kafka flink and k8. Hybrid onsite cloud aws or azure on premises. You will also be an infrastructure architect: Networking. infrastructures as a code (IaC) platform service, storage, database, network content distribution, security, IAM, microservices management. Low latency processing in streaming application enterprise applications size them up devops terraform ansible Jenkins Kubernetes helm and ci/cd pipeline must come from a financial firm exchange or event-driven environment 10 year cloud on prem degree data streaming 10 years java applications knowledge
Improvement of solutions running on core real-time data streaming and compute infrastructure platforms such Kafka, Flink and K8s in a Hybrid Environment.
Qualifications:
- Effective communication skills to effectively collaborate and evangelize best practices with technical stakeholders.
- Advanced problem-solving skills and logical approach to solving problems
- 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.
Technical Skills:
- Expert level knowledge of Kafka
- Expert level knowledge of Flink
- In depth knowledge of on-premises networking as well as the hybrid connectivity to AWS and/or Azure
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), compute, storage, database, network, content distribution, security/IAM, microservices, management, and serverless services
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Azure Resource Manager
- Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
Education and/or Experience:
- 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
- [Preferred] 5+ years of Kubernetes experience
