Engineer Level 3

Job Title: Engineer Level 3
Locations: Cincinnati, OH

Job Description
Required Qualifications
Experience: 3–5+ years of Kafka administration experience and 10+ years in software development or systems engineering.

Technical Skills:
o Expertise in Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform, including Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, Avro, and KSQL.
o Proficient in Cluster Management - Zookeeper, KRaft
o Strong object-oriented programming skills: Java, Go, Python
o Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Salt.
o Java backend development experience with Spring Boot.
o Solid understanding of software design patterns.
o Strong knowledge of architecture and design concepts, with the ability to create and maintain architecture artifacts.
o Proficient in containerization technology such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
o Expertise in DevOps, CI/CD, and GitHub Actions.
o Expertise in Domain Driven Design and Enterprise Application Integration.
o Experience with observability, telemetry, and APM tools such as dynaTrace.
o Good understanding of networking, storage, virtualization, and other infrastructure architecture.

Self-starter with a goal-oriented mindset.
Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
Expertise in supporting a Highly Available Low Latent Enterprise Application in Production environment(s).
Experience working with globally distributed team(s).
Frameworks: Solid understanding of ITSM/ITIL frameworks and Agile methodologies.