Senior Engineer - Data Solutions

Senior Engineer - Data Solutions at Boardroom Appointments in South Africa.

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

About the Company

We're not your average tech company we're a rocket-fueled, innovation-driven powerhouse that's changing the game. Our mission? To bring together the most incredible tech talent with companies that are shaping the future. We're talking AI, IoT, blockchain, and all the mind-blowing buzzwords you can think of!