Senior DevOps Engineer: Kafka

The Senior DevOps engineer designs and develops applications to deliver integration and automation solutions across Alarm.com's infrastructure and applications stack throughout theentire life-cycle. This position works closely with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Operations and Release Management in on-boarding of new and existing life safety and home automation applications to the cloud and serves as the main liaison between Release Management, Engineering and Operations in the delivery of automation solutions and software deployment frameworks from inception to development to production to maintenance. This role also works side-by-side with Engineering and Operations in all technical aspects of the Alarm.com cloud and applications with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Maintain and support our growing Kafka infrastructure
• Help advance our administration and reliability of Kafka through automation and testing
• Grow our Kubernetes pipelines and capabilities
• Take leadership of platform reliability, operational excellence and developer experience
• Use expertise to provide technical direction to engineering teams on best practices for
deploying and managing third party systems and custom software.
• Provide innovative solutions to increase reliability, performance and predictability of
Alarm.com's systems and cloud.
• Architect and implements solutions to migrate on-premises workloads to the public
cloud.
• Mentor and develop your teammates
• Identify and respond to production issues and participates in on-call support.
• Continue to build out our Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Kubernetes and other tooling.
• Maintain and grow our data tier services, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka and MySQL.

QUALIFICATIONS 

• 3+ years of experience in Kafka/Confluent Capacity planning, installation, administration,
  and platform management
•  6+ years of experience in DevOps
•  B.A. or B.S. (or higher level degree) in Computer Science or a similar engineering program
  with strong academic performance preferred.
• Knowledge of Kafka Producer and Consumer concepts and Kafka distributed Architecture
• Experience with Kafka/ Confluent, Kafka SQL KSQL, Kafka Connect and the Kafka Streaming
  APIs
• Experience with services such as Redis, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MySQL, NoSQL and other
  opensource technologies.
•  Experience using a configuration management framework like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt.
•  Knowledge of GitOps workflows.
•  Experience wth cloud technologies like Azure, AWS, VMware.
•  Experience administrating Linux.
• Experience in monitoring and alerting practices using tools such as Data Dog, Grafana, Pager Duty
•  Intermediate programing skills with a language like Python, PowerShell or Go

PREFERRED QUALIFCATIONS

• Certifications in Confluent Kafka, Cloud Technologies
  
  

COMPANY INFO
Alarm.com is the leading cloud-based platform for smart security and the Internet of Things. More than 6 million home and business owners depend on our solutions every day to make their properties safer, smarter, and more efficient. And every day, we’re innovating new technologies in rapidly evolving spaces including AI, video analytics, facial recognition, machine learning, energy analytics, and more. Alarm.com earned the Top Workplace™ award for our employee culture and the meaningful work we do to give property owners peace of mind, help them conserve energy and water, and stay connected to loved ones. We’re seeking those who are passionate about creating change through technology and who want to make a lasting impact on the world around them.

For more information, please visit www.alarm.com.

COMPANY BENEFITS
Alarm.com offers competitive pay and benefits including a wide choice of healthcare options with generous company subsidy, a health savings account option with company contribution, 401(k) with employer match, paid holidays and paid time off increasing with tenure, paid maternity and paternity leave, company paid STD/LTD and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, and a casual dress work environment.      

Alarm.com is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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