Cloud Architect, Principal Engineer
- INGENworks
1 Days Ago
NA
C2C
Irvine-CA
14-20 Years
Required Skills: Apache Kafka, Spring Boot, Java, Amazon Web Services, Kubernetes, Microservices Architecture, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, System Resiliency, Solution Architecture, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, EKS, Application Deployments, Cloud Networking, Cloud Security, Scalability, Troubleshooting, DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, CI/CD, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, IaC, Git, Containerization, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
Job Description
We are seeking a Principal Architect / Principal Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes to lead architecture, engineering, modernization, and operational excellence for highly scalable cloud-native platforms.
Key Responsibilities-
• Define and lead end-to-end architecture for scalable, resilient cloud-native applications and platforms.
• Provide technical leadership for Kafka, Spring Boot, AWS, and Kubernetes.
• Design and optimize Kafka clusters, including HA, replication, partitioning, security, performance, monitoring, and DR.
• Architect Spring Boot microservices and event-driven applications with focus on scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Design and optimize AWS architectures, including EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Lead Kubernetes/EKS architecture, deployment, scaling, security, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Drive DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automation using tools such as Terraform and GitHub/Harness.
• Lead complex production incidents, root-cause analysis, and technical remediation.
• Mentor senior engineers and serve as the technical escalation point for complex issues.
Required Skills-
• Kafka: Administration, architecture, performance tuning, security, HA/DR, monitoring.
• Spring Boot/Java: Microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, resiliency.
• AWS: Strong cloud architecture and hands-on engineering experience.
• Kubernetes: Architecture, EKS, deployments, networking, security, scaling, troubleshooting.
• DevOps: CI/CD, Terraform/IaC, Git, containerization.
• Observability: Datadog, Splunk, PrometheGrafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalent.
Experience
• 14+ years of software/platform engineering experience with significant architecture experience.
• Proven experience with large-scale distributed systems and production environments.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
• AWS/Kubernetes/Kafka certifications are a plus
Core Technologies: Kafka | Spring Boot | AWS | Kubernetes
