TQL

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.

What you’ll be doing: 

• The Platform Engineering team manages TQL’s foundational platforms like Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and Azure DevOps. 
• The Kafka Architect will work as a team member that partners with our Application Development and Infrastructure teams. 
• Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments. 
• Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to upskill their skillsets. 
• Work 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. 
• Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Architects/Team Leads about the Kafka platform and best practices including
• Topic creation, scaling, coding best practices, etc. 
• Maintain DevSecOps, GitOps and SRE mindsets, focusing on scalable, reliable and resilient platforms. 
• Identify areas of opportunity for continued automation and provide roadmaps for continuous improvement, with focus towards fully automating (script or otherwise) our environments. 
• Curate and/or review documentation for new and existing processes for communication and consistency purposes (instructions, flow diagrams).

What you need: 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or related field. 
• 5 years of experience in Kafka administration. 
• 5 years of experience managing critical, highly available, high transaction and performant architectures. 
• 5 years of experience building, configuring and architecting Kafka clusters providing best practices for scaling clusters, topics, and other components of the platform. 
• 1 year of experience with Confluent for Kubernetes. 
• 3 years of experience with monitoring and observability tools for Kafka such as Prometheus/Granafa, Dynatrace, and Datadog.
• 3 years of experience using automation and CI/CD for Kafka management such as Azure Devops, Github, Ansible and Terraform. 
• 5 years of experience owning multiple projects simultaneously and multi-tasking in a fast-paced, changing environment.

What’s in it for you: $131,000 - $165,000 base salary

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