Devops Data Platform Engineer

Wellington Contract - Until end of December Start Date - Within 2 weeks
Excellent Communication Skills
Work Rights for Wellington, NZ
Over the last year, our client has created a new Fast Data Platform, initially based on the Apache Hadoop and Kafka stacks. Now they have laid the foundation, have a passionate set of people who are continuing to build and improve the platform and tooling.They are looking for another engineer to join them. Do you have "the right stuff "?Ideally, you have experience in building CICD pipelines from scratch, and you have previously designed and built solutions for data science and analytics.You care about DevOps, Agile, Open Source Software, Data, and participating in a great team culture.Competencies within the team:Virtualisation, especially AWS and VMWare.
Containerisation using Docker and Kubernetes.
Linux OS configuration and use, including shell scripting.
Java programming, JVM configuration and tuning.
Python programming and virtual environments.
Git source control with standard Git workflows.
Network fundamentals and host-level routing.
Distributed system design and configuration.
Relational databases and SQL queries.
Security engineering practices and tools.
Streaming data at scale. Handling high velocity, high volume data events.
Agile and DevOps engineering practices and CICD tools.
Apache data ecosystem:
HDFS;
Spark;
Kafka;
Knowledgeable in these concepts:
Parallel and concurrent processing.
Distributed systems.
Microservices.
Interested candidates with relevant experience, please click on APPLY and share a copy of your updated CV. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.