As a Kafka DevOps Engineer, you will collaborate with our clients to help design, implement, maintain, and test various technical solutions using the latest technologies. You will also be responsible for creating and enhancing Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines and multiple kinds of automation processes (build management, automated deployments, automated testing, configuration management, etc.).

• Design and implement data pipelines using Apache Kafka.
• Collaborate with other development teams to integrate Kafka with various data sources and sinks.
• Develop streaming applications by using Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect.
• Ensure data integrity and security by implementing proper data access and encryption methods.
• Troubleshoot and optimize Kafka clusters for performance and reliability.
• Deep understanding of the Kafka Platform.
• Create Kafka-based applications using KTables, Kstreams, KSQL, and SMTs.
• Create/updating of Kafka connectors.

This is a remote position with occasional travel (if needed).

• Minimum of five years of experience.
• Experience with Kafka:
  • Experience with Kafka Architecture, Confluent preferred.
  • Expertise with deploying and maintaining Kafka as a Platform.
  • Experience with onboarding workloads
  • Connector setup and maintenance for sources and sinks.
• Help teams with transformations.
• Ensure proper RBAC.
• Production Kubernetes experience preferably with AKS.
• Expertise with Helm chart creation and maintenance
• Terraform expertise - module creation
• CI/CD experience.

AIS, Dedicated to Our People

AIS employees can spend their entire career at AIS doing challenging, rewarding work and reach their desired level of achievement and responsibility. We offer the opportunity to move up, without the obligation to move out of a position where one excels. We are committed to our employee's success; however, they define it.

It's our dedication to our employees that inspired our leadership to invest in our future and become partially employee-owned through an Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP).

Our employees are our greatest strength, and we do all that we can to serve them. We invest in technology as early adopters, allowing us to create transformative and innovative solutions for our customers while exposing our team to cutting edge technology.

We hire outstanding individuals who are committed to curiosity, passionate about emerging technology, and who are excited to find innovative solutions for the biggest tech challenges facing international brands and government agencies today.

We Invest in Individuals Committed to Innovation

AIS is seeking professionals of a certain character and level of excellence. People that we can learn from and that we can help grow to achieve their personal career goals.

We are looking for:

• Smart people with a passion for technology
• Strong technical capabilities with a consultancy mindset
• Close involvement with local technical communities
• A willingness to think outside of the box to provide innovative solutions to clients
• Ability to solve challenging technical business problems
• Self-directed professionals

Our Core Values

• Client Success
• Continued Learning and Technical Excellence
• Strong Client Relationships
• Citizenship and Community

Applied Information Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis covered by law. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business need.