Devops Engineer With Kafka Exposure (Remote)

Bridgenext is a digital consulting services leader that helps clients innovate with intention and realize their digital aspirations by creating digital products, experiences, and solutions around what real people need. Our global consulting and delivery teams facilitate highly strategic digital initiatives through digital product engineering, automation, data engineering, and infrastructure modernization services, while elevating brands through digital experience, creative content, and customer data analytics services.

Don’t just work, thrive. At Bridgenext, you have an opportunity to make a real difference – driving tangible business value for clients, while simultaneously propelling your own career growth. Our flexible and inclusive work culture provides you with the autonomy, resources, and opportunities to succeed.

Position Description

We are looking for a talented and experienced DevOps Enigneer with Kafka exposure to join our team in Argentina.

Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

• Assist daily with multiple projects and PoC work using established runbooks and CLI
• Get data from REST APIs and build CI/CD automation pipelines based on the results
• Perform and execute tasks with CLI commands for daily support operations
• Build out deployment pipelines and troubleshoot issues using GitHub pipelines, Helm, Argo and Terraform
• Work with Kafka for operational support
• Deploy components using Kubernetes Custom Resources and Operators from 3rd party vendors including establishing data connections, exposing services in a secure way, and managing secrets
• Develop and troubleshoot Kubernetes/Helm/Argo/Terraform for team and 3rd party software
• Deploy and test multiple pieces of software to Kubernetes for Proof-of-Concept efforts
• Read and write shell scripts
• Script automation for proving out PoC work and validating success in multiple forms including UI and API capabilities

Workplace: Remote based in Argentina

Must Have Skills

• Full Professional English proficiency is required
• Kubernetes, Helm, and Argo expertise regarding building and troubleshooting deployments required
• Expert level with Terraform
• Exposure to Kafka for operational support
• Read and navigate code
• Proficiency with containerization (Docker and Kubernetes), including code, run times and system tools
• Ability to participate in and contribute to code management in GitHub including actively collaborating in peer-reviews, feature branches, and resolving conflicts and commits
• Experience reading and writing shell scripts
• Experience with CLI and the ability to write scripts that pull data from REST APIs
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (Azure preferred)

Preferred Skills

• Microservices experience
• New Relic or Prometheus/Grafana
• Azure Event Hubs a bonus, but not required
• Exposure to NodeJS and .NET

Professional Skills

• Solid written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong team and individual player
• Maintains composure during all types of situations and is collaborative by nature
• High standards of professionalism, consistently producing high quality results
• Self-sufficient, independent requiring very little supervision or intervention
• Demonstrate flexibility and openness to bring creative solutions to address issues

Bridgenext is an Equal Opportunity Employer