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NetApp Hiring for Senior TechOps Engineer – Kafka Job at Goodyear, AZ Full Time
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Job Summary
Instaclustr is one of Australia’s growing success stories and we are continuously searching for ambitious and like-minded people to join our growing and exciting tech family in our US Regions.
We are currently looking for an experienced Senior Kafka Operations Engineer to join our growing US team. Instaclustr is an open source as-a-service company, delivering reliability at scale. We manage cutting edge open source technologies (Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch) for our customers around the world. Recently, Instaclustr named in Deloitte’s 2020 fast 500 companies of North America after another monumental growth year.
Since its foundation in 2013, Instaclustr has seen significant growth, with over 200 large scale and really exciting customers spread across the globe, and over 5000 servers under our management. We have offices in Australia, the USA, and Europe and employ over 220 people worldwide.
Instaclustr makes it easy for our customers to run powerful open source applications at the highest levels of scale. We have developed a platform that takes care of the whole lifecycle: provisioning infrastructure, installing applications and, most importantly, keeping the applications running reliably in production. Our customers operate 24 x7 and our business does too – our operations team is spread across the globe to provide fast, expert support and operational responses.
In this exciting growth phase we are looking for Senior Kafka Operations Engineer to join our TechOps team. We are happy to consider applications who are open to work remotely.
Job Duties
If you have excellent operational knowledge in managing Kafka clusters, look no further !! As a Kafka Operations Engineer, you are in the frontline team keeping our large fleet of cloud-hosted Apache Kafka clusters up and running. Every day, you will diagnose and solve challenging and interesting technical problems providing a Kafka service in a highly automated environment. Our service is relied on by some of the leading global names in Banking and Financial Services, Telecom, IoT and other tech companies to deliver for millions of end users.
- Provide expert operational support to our nodes running in the cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), using technologies such as Linux (CoreOS, Ubuntu), Docker, and languages including Java, Python and bash.
- Liaise with our customer’s engineers in resolving issues with their use of Apache Kafka, and other supported technologies.
- Undertake complex cluster operations such as migrations, upgrades and maintenance on our fleet of 5000+ nodes.
- Develop and continually improve our suite of internal automation tools, applications, and processes.
Skills & Experience
- Have strong experience in Apache Kafka and a desire to learn more and develop to a true expert level. This should include experience diagnosing issues such as ISR drop or broker failures through the analysis of logs, the Apache Kafka codebase and the Kafka Jira project.
- Good fundamental computer science / software engineering skills and knowledge, particularly operating system internals, memory management, and networking.
- Strong knowledge and experience with Linux and be comfortable working from the command line.
- Ideally, programming skills in Ansible, Python or Java, and source code control using Git.
- Exceptional ability to communicate clearly and professionally in written and verbal English (essential).
- Follow required processes and procedures.
- Work as part of a team and use your initiative to
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