About the role: As Kafka Architect (multiple openings) for Total Quality Logistics, LLC, you will join the Platform Engineering team that is responsible for bridging the gap between software and hardware for one of the largest freight brokerage firms in the nation.
  

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What you’ll be doing: 

\n\nThe Platform Engineering team manages TQL’s foundational platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Azure DevOps. \nThe Kafka Architect will work as a team member that partners with our Application Development and Infrastructure teams. \nProvide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments. \nFunction as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to upskill their skillsets. \nWork together with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinized as appropriate for their use case. \nEducate fellow team members as well as Application Development Architects/Team Leads about the Kafka platform and best practices including\nTopic creation, scaling, coding best practices, etc. \nMaintain DevSecOps, GitOps and SRE mindsets, focusing on scalable, reliable and resilient platforms. \nIdentify areas of opportunity for continued automation and provide roadmaps for continuous improvement, with focus towards fully automating (script or otherwise) our environments. \nCurate and/or review documentation for new and existing processes for communication and consistency purposes (instructions, flow diagrams).
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What you need: 

\n\nBachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field. \n5 years of experience in Kafka administration. \n5 years of experience managing critical, highly available, high transaction and performant architectures. \n5 years of experience building, configuring and architecting Kafka clusters providing best practices for scaling clusters, topics, and other components of the platform. \n1 year of experience with Confluent for Kubernetes. \n3 years of experience with monitoring and observability tools for Kafka such as Prometheus/Granafa, Dynatrace, and Datadog.\n3 years of experience using automation and CI/CD for Kafka management such as Azure Devops, Github, Ansible and Terraform. \n5 years of experience owning multiple projects simultaneously and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, changing environment.
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What’s in it for you: $131,000 - $165,000 base salary
  

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Where you'll be: May work remotely or telecommute from any location in the U.S.

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Total Quality Logistics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.
  

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If you are unable to apply online due to a disability, contact recruiting at recruiting@tql.com.