Role: Cloud Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Duration: Long Term Contract
Responsibilities Include:
# Building and maintaining highly available Confluent Kafka Clusters and CSE Cassandra Clusters that will be consumed by the AMP applications running in our Cloud based PaaS environment.
# With your core understanding of Linux, clustering and networking, you will have an emphasis on also providing end to end Level 3 support for the the Confluent kafka Cluster and DSE Cassandra environment.
# Bringing Linux hands-on experience for Level 3 troubleshooting virtualization & possible future containerized environments.
# Working with distributed log analytics like Splunk and ELK.
# Building scripts using Linux scripting and or Python.
# Hands-on experience of using Ansible as an automation tool-chain.
# Devops experience related to Kafka and Cassandra infrastructures
# Kafka connectivity and Kafka integration with Java applications strongly preferred.
# Cassandra connectivity and Cassandra integration with Java applications strongly preferred.
# Having a good understanding of Cloud Principles and container based platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, and Redhat Openshift to support our customers use of Cloud Services is a plus.
# Overall 5 years of Technology industry experience with 2-3 Years of meaningful Kafka and Cassandra engineering experience
# Demonstrated professional expertise in a large Fortune 100 company running an IT Production Operation at scale including Infrastructure (Servers, Network, Storage, Security) and deployment of highly available Applications (Distributed, Middleware, Databases across all tiers)
# Experience working within an Agile led team for rapid and continuous development of work products
# Strong experience in Linux functionalities features and system administration
# Demonstrated working knowledge of high availability and Disaster Recovery implementations
# Strong knowledge of virtualization management in VMware Desirable experience
# Validated diagnostic, troubleshooting, and service restoration skills.
# Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
# Strong communication skills with the ability to work with customers in critical outage situations.
Job Requirements: Cassandra, Docker, Kubernetes, VMware NSX, App instance provisioning through DevOps, Incident Management Audit Report