Senior Systems Engineer - Remote

at  Epam Systems

If you are looking for a high-impact systems engineering role with a global leader in digital transformation, EPAM is the perfect next step in your career! As an EPAMer, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a supportive team, on a variety of interesting projects for some of the biggest brands in the world. Are you ready for the next step in your career journey? Apply now!
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REQUIREMENTS

• Hands on experience working with the implementation and maintenance of Confluent Platform
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues
• Strong understanding of networking and the capability to coordinate with different teams such as the networking and CICD teams
• Exposure to automating processes and maintaining automated scripts
• Proven history working with the Kafka Confluent Stack, Terraform, Kubernetes Containers, Cloud GCP, Cloud AWS, and Jenkins
• Familiar with Python, Shell scripting and automation
• Knowledge of Linux, PagerDuty, Uptrends and HELM
• Relevant certifications (such as Confluent Certified Developer or Administrator for Apache Kafka) would be a plus

• Install and provision new Kafka clusters and the supporting components
• Monitor the health and performance of the Kafka platform and data pipeline as well as perform regular performance tuning
• Identify and fix issues related to the platform including data pipelines, network problems, cloud or containerization resources failures and software bugs
• Upgrade the Kafka platform to newer versions, including the planning, testing, and implementation
• Manage the security of the Kafka platform including access control lists, encryption, regular security reviews as well as perform regular backups & disaster recovery procedures
• Support existing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration Management (CM) automations & pipelines
• Maintain and enhance onboarding automation scripts to reduce the number of tickets via self-service
• Assist with Kafka self-service automations for Topic, RBAC, Schema and connectors management
• Implement new features within the clients product roadmap, in coordination with the Platform owner