Cloud Engineer

Randstad
Westlake, United States of America
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Intermediate
Compensation
$ 158K

Job location

Westlake, United States of America

Tech stack

Java
Agile Methodologies
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
Cloud Computing
Static Program Analysis
Software Quality
Computer Networks
DevOps
Github
Protocol Buffers
Gradle
Identity and Access Management
Image Management
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Maven
Octopus Deploy
Scrum
Role-Based Access Control
Ansible
Data Logging
Google Cloud Platform
Java Application Server
Istio
Spring-boot
Event Driven Architecture
Integration Tests
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Apache Flink
Avro
Kafka
Linkerd (Service Mesh)
Spark Streaming
Api Gateway
REST
Terraform
Stream Processing
Dynatrace
Docker
Jenkins
Confluent
Microservices

Requirements

Experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer groups, offset management, and schema evolution (Avro / Protobuf with Schema Registry).

  • Familiarity with Kafka deployment and operations on Kubernetes (Strimzi Operator or Confluent Platform).

  • Exposure to stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming., Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE).

  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm/Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling.

  • Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries).

  • Proven ability to build and maintain self-service developer platforms and golden-path templates on Kubernetes.

  • 2+ years of experience operating workloads on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), including networking, IAM, and cost optimisation.

  • Strong knowledge of observability: metrics (PrometheGrafana), logging (ELK / OpenSearch), and distributed tracing.

  • Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns.

  • Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM).

  • Strong technical design and analysis skills; ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment.

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong collaboration skills across multiple teams.

qualifications:

  • 3+ years of experience developing microservices with Java and Spring Boot.

  • Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event-driven design patterns.

  • Experience containerising and deploying Java applications to Kubernetes, including JVM tuning for container environments.

  • Familiarity with build tooling (Maven, Gradle) and code quality practices (unit/integration testing, static analysis).

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