Request Technology Looking for Terraform/Ansible Cloud Automation Engineer at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey Full Time
*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*
*Onsite 4 days a week*
A prestigious company is looking for a Kafka Cloud Automation Engineer. The key to this position is using Terraform and Ansible to deploy, build, and upgrade AWS infrastructure while supporting Kafka streaming platforms.
Responsibilities:
The Cloud Automation Engineer will assist in Architecting the Event Streaming platforms, designing and automating the daily operations of the Event Streaming Environments, as well as architecting additional tools for integrating with the Event Streaming environment. In addition, they will work with developers on integrating with the Event Streaming platform, assisting in the design, scale, and tooling of the application.
Support the existing Event Streaming (Kafka) platforms. Assists in installation of new Event Streaming Services (Kafka) platforms and build best practices and ensures adoption of secure development and automation of development and deployment
Take inputs from Platform Architect (team) to facilitate analytics platform provisioning, maintenance and support and coordinate with platform architect (team) to implement changes to platform configuration and components
Report on the status and operability of existing Event Streaming Services (Kafka) platforms
Ensure Adherence to plans and standards by participating in quality management reviews and Certify tools for code management, automated testing, platform terraforming and release management and ensure compliance is built in to account for Regulatory & internal policies
Monitor and respond to Event Streaming Services (Kafka) platform failures and bottlenecks
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
Experience working with Message Systems such as Kafka and/or streaming engines like Kinesis/EventHub/DataFlow
Terraform and Ansible experience.
Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies
Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and private cloud environments.
1~2 years operating in Kafka environments
1~2 years of work experience in Software development, Cloud Security, Cloud Development and data management
5 years of work experience in Systems administration
Advanced knowledge of BI/analytics capabilities, techniques, and best practices
Experience with Kafka and other Apache stack components is ideal.
Knowledge of Kafka Configurations, Management and Kafka testing.
