Kafka Cloud Engineer
DESCRIPTION
Join EPAM as a Cloud Operations Engineer.
In this role, you'll be responsible for installing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining the Kafka platform, ensuring optimal performance and security.
If you have 5+ years of experience in the implementation and maintenance of Confluent Platform and strong experience in automating processes and maintaining automated scripts, we'd love to hear from you.
EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
Responsibilities
- Install and provision new Kafka clusters and supporting components
- Regularly monitor the health and performance of the Kafka platform and data pipelines
- Identify and fix issues related to the platform, including data pipelines, network problems, cloud or containerization resources failures, or software bugs
- Perform regular performance tuning of Kafka platform components
- Monitor and optimize the cost and performance of Kafka clusters
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in the implementation and maintenance of Confluent Platform
- Strong experience in automating processes and maintaining automated scripts
- Advanced knowledge of Kafka Confluent Stack, HELM Kubernetes/Containers, Docker, and Python/Shell scripting and automation experience
- Intermediate knowledge (3 years) of Cloud GCP, Cloud AWS (compute, networking, storage, IAM), Jenkins (pipelines, groovy), Linux administration, PagerDuty, and Uptrends
We Offer
- Career plan and real growth opportunities
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- International Mobility Plan within 25 countries
- Constant training, mentoring, online corporate courses, eLearning and more
- English classes with a certified teacher
- Support for employee's initiatives (Algorithms club, toastmasters, agile club and more)
- Enjoyable working environment (Gaming room, napping area, amenities, events, sport teams and more)
- Flexible work schedule and dress code
- Collaborate in a multicultural environment and share best practices from around the globe
- Hired directly by EPAM & 100% under payroll
- Law benefits (IMSS, INFONAVIT, 25% vacation bonus)
- Major medical expenses insurance: Life, Major medical expenses with dental & visual coverage (for the employee and direct family members)
- 13 % employee savings fund, capped to the law limit
- Grocery coupons
- 30 days December bonus
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- 12 vacations days plus 4 floating days
- Official Mexican holidays, plus 5 extra holidays (Maundry Thursday and Friday, November 2nd, December 24th & 31st)
- Relocation bonus: transportation, 2 weeks of accommodation for you and your family and more
- Monthly non-taxable amount for the electricity and internet bills
Conditions
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