Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer

1 week ago

Vienna, United States Alarm.com Full time

The Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer designs and develops applications to deliver integration and automation solutions across Alarm.com's infrastructure and applications stack throughout the entire life-cycle. This position works closely with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations and Release Management in on-boarding of new and existing life safety and home automation applications to the cloud and serves as the main liaison between Release Management, Engineering and Operations in the delivery of automation solutions and software deployment frameworks from inception to development to production to maintenance. This role also works side-by-side with Engineering and Operations in all technical aspects of the Alarm.com cloud and applications with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

Kafka Responsibilities

  • Deployment & Implementation: implement Confluent Kafka from the ground up using VMware and Cloud Providers.
  • Troubleshooting: Ability to troubleshoot and resolve Confluent Kafka issues as they occur.
  • Automation: Deploy and manage Confluent Kafka using automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Puppet.
  • Design & Optimization: Design and optimize event driven and data streaming services from a Confluent Kafka perspective including capacity planning.
  • Monitoring: Deploy and maintain Confluent Kafka monitoring dashboards and alerts.
  • Kubernetes Migration: Migrate Confluent Kafka into Kubernetes using GitOps workflows.
  • Pipeline Growth: Grow our Kubernetes pipelines and capabilities.
  • Subject Matter Expert: Serve as Alarm.com's SME for Confluent/Kafka.
  • Linux Management: Manage and optimize Linux VMs hosting Confluent/Kafka.
  • Other duties as assigned
DevOps Responsibilities
  • Administration & Reliability: Help advance our administration and reliability of our environment through automation and testing.
  • Data Tier Services: Maintain and grow our data tier services, including Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL.
  • Leadership: Take leadership of platform reliability, operational excellence, and developer experience.
  • Technical Direction: Provide technical direction to engineering teams on best practices for deploying and managing thirdparty systems and custom software.
  • Innovative Solutions: Provide innovative solutions to increase the reliability, performance, and predictability of Alarm.com's systems and cloud.
  • Cloud Migration: Architect and implement solutions to migrate onpremises workloads to the public cloud.
  • Mentorship: Mentor and develop your teammates.
  • Production Issues: Identify and respond to production issues and participate in oncall support.
  • Tooling: Continue to build out our Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and other tooling.
  • Data Tier Growth: Maintain and grow our data tier services, including Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, and NoSQL.
Qualifications
  • Experience: 10+ years of experience.
  • Education: B.A. or B.S. (or higher level degree) in Computer Science or a similar engineering program with strong academic performance preferred.
  • Kubernetes: Knowledge of Kubernetes infrastructure and troubleshooting using kubectl.
  • Services: Experience with services such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, NoSQL, and other opensource technologies.
  • Configuration Management: Experience using a configuration management framework like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt.
  • GitOps: Knowledge of GitOps workflows.
  • Cloud Technologies: Experience with cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, and VMware.
  • Linux: Experience administering Linux.
  • Monitoring & Alerting: Experience in monitoring and alerting practices using tools such as DataDog, Grafana, PagerDuty.
  • Programming Skills: Intermediate programming skills with a language like Python, PowerShell, or Go.
WHY WORK FOR ALARM.COM?
  • Collaborate with outstanding people: We hire only the best. Our standards are high and our employees enjoy working alongside other high achievers.
  • Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the Alarm.com team
  • Gain well rounded experience: Alarm.com offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
  • Focus on fun: Alarm.com places high value on our team culture. We even have a committee dedicated to hosting a stand-out holiday party, happy hours, and other fun corporate events.
  • Alarm.com values working together and collaborating in person. Our employees work from the office 4 days a week.

COMPANY INFO

Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 7.6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we're innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. We're seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them.

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS

Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits inclusive of subsidized medical plan options, an HSA with generous company contribution, a 401(k) with employer match, and paid holidays, wellness time, and vacation increasing with tenure. Paid maternity and bonding leave, company-paid disability and life insurance, FSAs, well-being resources and activities, and a casual dress work environment are also part of our outstanding total rewards package

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you ("Personal Information"). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, criminal record, and demographic information. We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting criminal background checks as permitted by law, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.

Notice To Third Party Agencies:

Alarm.com understands the value of professional recruiting services. However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you. If you are interested in working with Alarm.com, please email your company information and standard agreement to RecruitingPartnerships@Alarm.com

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