Senior Cloud Engineer w/ Kafka Exp - GSSR Inc

As a SeniorCloud Engineer working with in our Cloud Group you will work within adiverse team comprised of passionate technologists who believe in the power ofinnovation and constant collaboration. We believe that small, empowered,self-motivated teams can achieve outstanding things. We are passionate aboutopensource contribution, sharing our expertise and knowledge with theengineering community while adopting a continuous learning approach support bya dedicated learning day each week.

TheExpertise and Skills You Bring

• Extensive experience (5%2B years) working with Container ecosystems / Kubernetes ecosystem / Event Driven Architectures.
• Extensive experience (10%2B years)  applying software engineering patterns, coding best practices and principles. 
• Extensive experience (3%2B years) with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
• Passion for new technologies and working in an agile environment.
  • Bonus skills (Nice to have) - Cloud Certifications including either Kubernetes certifications, or certifications in either AWS, Azure, Kafka/Apache, Java, Python or Kubernetes.

1. Strong Experiences programming with Kafka (I.E. engineering software with a background in Python/Java including API development MORE DETAILS BELOW
   1. Must have extensive experience with Kafka, not just subscribers/consumers, but brokers, kafka ecosystems, event streaming and cloud native developments.
   2. Python or Java is a must.
   3. Terraform/Ansible/Cloudformation (flexible, but will need to use Terraform, ok if someone has experience with Chef/other IaaC tool.

IN ADDITIONTO:

• Extensive experience working Kubernetes and Kubernetes ecosystem.
• Extensive experience applying software engineering patterns, coding best practices and principles. 
• Extensive experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
• Passion for new technologies and working in an agile environment.
• Extensive experience working hands-on with infrastructure as code.
• Extensive experience working with mid-tier technologies (APIs)
• Extensive experience applying software engineering patterns & coding best practices.
• Extensive experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment.
• Passion for new technologies and working in an agile environment.
• Cloud Certifications in AWS, Azure or Kubernetes not required but highly desired.