Job Description

BASIC PURPOSE
We are looking for a highly skilled Kafka Kubernetes DevOps Engineer who thrives in troubleshooting complex systems, taking initiative, and driving solutions independently. Our infrastructure is built on aws EKS and we need someone who deeply understand Kafka, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm chart and operators to ensure seamless deployments and efficient operations.

• ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Self-starter mentality: take ownership of the problems or tasks, drive solutions, and continuously improve our processes
• Responsible for establishing end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical aspects of supported pipelines.
• Identify low hanging fruits
• Manage and troubleshoot our aws eks clusters, ensuring reliability and performance
• Strong focus on improving team practices.
• Ensure technical solutions meet quality, security, and compliance requirements; work directly with key stakeholders and technical teams to ensure solutions have passed the required quality checks.
• Partner with SREs on configuration management at scale.
• Work with software engineers (SWEs) in product development and SREs to define all the steps required to release software: how the software is stored in the source code repository; how artifacts are stored in artifact management repositories; how middleware is configuration and patched; enforcing build rules for compilation; automated testing and establishing quality gates; packaging; and deployment processes.
• Proactively work on toil reduction, efficiency, and capacity planning.
• Promote a culture of shared responsibility.
  SUPERVISION:
• N/A (Individual Contributor)
• RELATIONSHIPS
• Internal: IT Developers, IT Directors, IT Architecture, USF Business Professionals
• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• 1+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering practices required
• 3+ years of experience in DevOps related field required
• 3+ years of experience with automation tools and Continuous Integration systems (e.g., Bamboo, Chef, Git) required
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes & Docker required