Kafka Cloud Engineer

Cloud Hybrid Technologies, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud solutions provider in Chicago is seeking a skilled professional to design and manage automated workflows for cloud environments. The role involves developing automation scripts, managing DevOps activities, and ensuring service reliability. Candidates should have strong experience with Docker and Kafka, along with a background in cloud platform provisioning and capacity planning. This position offers the opportunity to contribute significantly to technology roadmaps and project management within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and managing fully automated workflows for cloud environments.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation tasks, ensuring a high level of service reliability.
• Ability to assess capacity needs and forecast for cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, implement, and manage a fully automated cloud environment.
• Develop and maintain deployable automation design scripts and documentation.
• Lead DevOps development activities and manage software installations and upgrades.

Skills

Automation design scripts

DevOps practices

Docker

Kafka

Cloud environment provisioning

Tools

Container management systems

Job description

Overview

• Design, configure, implement and manage a fully automated workflow for provisioning and maintaining a complex, highly available cloud environment using infrastructure as code
• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures for deploying services to the cloud
• Manage DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with tools such as Docker, Kafka and container management systems
• Lead and participate in cloud computing environment build-outs, software installation, maintenance and support, including but not limited to, patches, fixes, end-of-life preparation, and upgrades
• Ensure the reliability of the services your area of responsibility provide and manage to both specific and implied SLAs to help the organization achieve both internal and external quality standard excellence for the cloud platform
• Assess and plan for capacity needs within the cloud platform and forecast accordingly
• Lead in the development of technology roadmaps and end-of-life technology plans
• Effectively communicate project and operational service issues to senior management promptly with observations, decisions, and recommendations for corrective measures

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Cloud Hybrid is an equal opportunity employer inclusive of female, minority, disability and veterans, (M/F/D/V). Hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination and all other employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, citizenship/immigration status, veteran status or any other protected status. Cloud Hybrid will not make any posting or employment decision that does not comply with applicable laws relating to labor and employment, equal opportunity, employment eligibility requirements or related matters. Nor will Cloud Hybrid require in a posting or otherwise U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent residency in the U.S. as a condition of employment except as necessary to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or federal, state, or local government contract