Devops Architect

Highbrow LLC; United States; Remote; EUR 121,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is looking for a highly skilled DevOps Architect to design, deploy, and optimize large-scale Kafka infrastructures. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience with DevOps practices, Cloud Engineering, and expertise in tools such as Terraform and Jenkins. This remote position requires strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams. The role offers a contract-to-hire opportunity with a focus on real-time data processing and cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with Confluent Kafka (Cloud and On-Prem).
• Advanced knowledge of AWS (VPC, IAM, Networking, Security).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Jenkins, Git, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience managing and monitoring large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, data streaming patterns, and real-time integration.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and configure Confluent Kafka clusters and security configurations.
• Automate deployment and maintenance using Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines integrating Kafka components.
• Perform root-cause analysis and optimize system performance.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines integrating Kafka components and infrastructure changes.
• Perform root-cause analysis, optimize throughput, and manage production incidents.
• Provide architectural leadership for event-driven solutions across cloud and hybrid environments.

Skills

DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Confluent Kafka

AWS

Jenkins

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Tools

Confluent Cloud

CI/CD technologies

Chef

CloudFormation

Jenkins

Git

Confluent Kafka

Job description

Job Title: Devops Architect

Location: Remote in US.

Pay rate: As per industry standards.

Client – Financial Services company, Name is still not provided.

Key Skills: Devops, Terraform, Ansible, Confluent Kafka

Note: Contract to hire role… they would be hired by end customer after 6 months

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps Architectwith expertise in Confluent Kafka,AWS, andmodern automation frameworks. The ideal candidate will lead the design, deployment, and optimization of large-scale, distributed event-streaming environments across on-premise and cloud infrastructures.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and configure Confluent Kafka clusters, topics, partitions, replication strategies, and security configurations across on-prem and cloud environments (including Confluent Cloud).
• Automate provisioning, deployment, scaling, and maintenance using tools such as Terraform,Chef,Ansible,CloudFormation,Jenkins, and other CI/CD technologies.
• Build automated, self-service capabilities for topic creation, schema governance, ACLs, and resource provisioning to streamline engineering workflows.
• Use Chef, Ansible, or similar tools to automate system configurations, application deployments, and middleware setups.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines integrating Kafka components and infrastructure changes using Jenkins, Git, and other DevOps toolchains.
• Perform root-cause analysis, optimize throughput, tune brokers/producers/consumers, and manage high-severity production incidents.
• Provide architectural leadership for event-driven solutions, real-time data processing, and streaming ecosystems across cloud and hybrid environments.

Skill set requirement:

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with Confluent Kafka (Cloud and On-Prem).
• Advanced knowledge of AWS (VPC, IAM, Networking, Security, EKS nice to have).
• Strong proficiency in Terraform.
• Strong CI/CD experience with Jenkins, Git, and automated deployment pipelines.
• Experience managing and monitoring large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture, data streaming patterns, and real-time integration.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.