Kafka Engineer: Cloud Expert

3 weeks ago


Annapolis, Maryland, United States EverWatch Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Kafka Engineer to join our team at EverWatch, a government solutions company providing advanced defense and intelligence services. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for managing, administering, supporting, and enhancing cloud environments to ensure continuous improvement and rapid problem resolution.

About the Role

This is a challenging opportunity for a talented individual with expertise in Kafka, Confluent, or Kubernetes operators. You will work independently with minimal direction, mentoring and supervising team members as needed. Your extensive technical expertise and industry knowledge will enable you to develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage and administer cloud environments to ensure high availability, throughput, low latency, and alerting.
  • Develop and deploy data partitioning strategies and monitoring topics for performance.
  • Deploy and upgrade Kafka clusters in high-availability containerized environments.
  • Utilize observability platforms, including Elastic and Datadog, to configure monitoring for data pipelines.
RequirementsBasic Qualifications
  • 1+ years of experience with Kafka, Confluent, or Kubernetes operators.
  • Experience creating data partitioning strategies and monitoring topics for performance.
  • Experience deploying and upgrading Kafka clusters in high-availability containerized environments.
  • Experience utilizing observability platforms, including Elastic and Datadog, to configure monitoring for data pipelines.
  • Knowledge of stream processing pipelines and analytics.
  • Secret Clearance required.
  • Bachelor's degree required.
Additional Qualifications
  • Experience with Apache NiFi, multi-cluster, or containerized environment experience.
  • Experience with scripting in Bash or Python.
  • Experience deploying and maintaining applications, appliances, or machines aligned to DoD or Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) and Security Requirements Guides (SRG).
  • Experience writing playbooks and scripts for automation tools, including Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet, for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC).
  • Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, encryption, boundary defense, auditing, authentication, and supply chain risk management.
  • DoD8570 IAT II Compliance Certification, such as Security+, CCNA Security, GSE.
Clearance Level

Secret

Location

Annapolis Junction, MD

Estimated Salary Range

$120,000 - $180,000 per year



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