Leidos is seeking a Senior Kafka Site Reliability Engineer to be part of the mission solution and help lead SSA's Digital Modernization Strategy. Join one of our high performing teams responsible for building the next-generation enterprise APIs and modern applications using data streaming and event driven architecture to modernize the speed at which business is done. We serve the Social Security Administration (SSA) and their mission to meet the changing needs of the public, positively impacting at least 65 million American lives per month. We are a team of forward-looking professionals in need of a strong candidate with these key required skills:Kafka Architecture, Ansible Automation, RHEL/Linux Administration, Scripting (Bash, Shell, Python), Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus).
If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!
TEAM CULTURE
Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer yes to the following questions:
- Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
- Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
- Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
- Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
- Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
- Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
- Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?
MENTORSHIP & CAREER GROWTH
Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced team members will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring, collaborative reviews, and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.
DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES
Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it.Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status. Find your Why with us and take your place in our Leidos Family!!
- Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:
- Data Streaming, Event Driven Architecture, Event Processing Frameworks
- DevOps (Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, SonarQube)
- Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform / CloudFormation, Scripting)
- Administer Kafka including automating, installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configuring on Linux.
- Provide expertise in one or more of these areas: Kafka administration, event-driven architecture, automation, application integration, monitoring and alerting, security, business process management/business rules processing, CI/CD pipeline and containerization, or data ingestion/data modeling.
- Investigate, repair, and actively ensure business continuity regardless of impacted component: Kafka Platform, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
- Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
- All other duties as assigned or directed
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.Experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- Master's or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
- 8+ years of combined experience with Site Reliability Engineering, providing DevOps support, and/or RHEL administration for mission-critical platforms, ideally Kafka.
- 4+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK)
- 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.