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SoftStandard Solutions is hiring a Cloud SRE / Kafka Engineer to build, operate, and improve highly available cloud platforms and real-time streaming systems. The role combines site reliability engineering with Apache Kafka administration to support reliable, observable, and automated data pipelines and critical services.\n\nResponsibilities\nDesign, deploy, and manage Apache Kafka clusters (brokers, topics, partitions, replication, ZooKeeper/KRaft)\nManage Kafka ecosystem components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, MirrorMaker, and Kafka Streams\nMonitor and tune Kafka for throughput, latency, retention, and consumer lag\nBuild and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP\nDefine and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to improve service reliability\nAutomate infrastructure and operations using Terraform, Ansible, and scripting\nManage containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps)\nSet up observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or Splunk\nLead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems\nParticipate in on-call rotations and reduce operational toil through automation\nImplement security best practices, including encryption, ACLs, SSL/SASL, and IAM\nPlan capacity, disaster recovery, and failover strategies\nCollaborate with development, data, and platform teams\n\nSkills\n3-9 years\nAuthorized to work in the US\n3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure, including 3+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka administration (architecture, partitioning, replication, consumer groups)\nExperience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry (Avro/Protobuf), Kafka security, and platforms like Confluent, Amazon MSK, or Azure Event Hubs\nStrong cloud experience on AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch), Azure, or GCP, with Kubernetes and Docker in production\nInfrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation), Ansible, Git, and CI/CD pipelines\nProficiency in Python, Go, or Bash, plus strong Linux and networking fundamentals\nHands-on with monitoring and incident tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, Splunk, PagerDuty), high availability and disaster recovery, and strong root cause analysis skills\n\nBenefits\nRelocation flexibility across the USA\nH-1B sponsorship, STEM OPT support, and Green Card (PERM/I-140) sponsorship for eligible candidates\n\nCompany Overview\nSoftStandard Solutions is a leading consulting, business solution and systems integration firm with a unique blend of services. 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