Senior Engineer - Data Solutions
Responsibilities:
- Prepare for projects, discussing the goals and expectations with the customer and building specifications
- Researching best practices or components required for projects
- Technical delivery of Elastic and Kafka solutions using Kubernetes based deployment models.
- Solution design, development, and integration of Elastic & Kafka products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
- Monitor, upgrade, patch and support Elastic & Kafka deployments.
- Track tickets in support desk and project tasks in project boards.
- Build strong relationships with customers.
- Writing or editing documentation and knowledge bases
- Data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling
- Solving customers data challenges
- Engineering our solutions for automation using helm
- Engaging with our Sales and Pre-Sales teams to assist with solution scoping and identifying technical risks or concerns
- Honing your skills by completing certifications on our product stacks.
- Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene OR Apache Kafka. Having both would be a bonus.
- Experience building and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, observability and/or enterprise data integration solutions
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
- Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
- An understanding of deploying enterprise systems in a containerised environment, preferably Kubernetes.
- Experience operating Linux
- Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and engineering perspective
- Good communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions
- Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
- Understanding and passion for open-source technology
- Experience helping customers build Apache Kafka solutions alongside relational and NoSQL databases, message queues, and related products
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