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Cloud Engineer

  • Sector: ConSol UK Enterprise & Cloud
  • Contact: Abdul Siddiqui
  • Contact Email: abdul.siddiqui@consolpartners.com
  • Duration: 12+ months
  • Start Date: ASAP
  • Location: Belgium
  • Salary: €250 - €270 per day
  • Expiry Date: 02 April 2024
  • Job Ref: BBBH439708_1711460699

Technical Lead - Remote job - Long term contract

One of my client is urgently hiring a Technical Lead. It's a fully remote role. Below are the details. Please apply for immediate consideration.


Tasks:

  • Delivery of a new API Management platform, based on Azure APIM in a hybrid cloud environ-ment composed of the on-prem Data Centre, and EIBG Landing Zones in AWS and Azure. This includes an internal decentralized Azure APIM with self-hosted gateways (in AWS EKS and on-prem Tanzu), and an external, centralized Azure APIM with Web Application Firewall.
  • Extension of the existing on-prem Event Streaming (Confluent Kafka) Platform with a man-aged clusters in the cloud to be used in AWS and Azure.
  • Integration of both platforms (API Management and Event Streaming) with Azure AD as the identity provider for application registration and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
  • Automation tooling for application teams for easy deployment of APIs, Kafka topics, and RBAC management.
  • Migration of application teams to the new API Management platform.
  • Onboarding of new cloud applications to the Event Streaming platform in the cloud.


Skills:

  • University (M.Sc.) degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or engineering (or equivalent applied experience).
  • Background in public and/or private financial services institutions, insurance undertakings or equivalent institutions preferred.
  • Experience with prototyping and leading software development teams on large-scale implementation projects.
  • Strong proficiency in one or more coding languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C#, Python).
  • Experience with development platforms (e.g., Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc.).
  • Knowledge of software development methodology, design and lifecycles.
  • Strong ability to understand context for source code, the source codebase, and its relation to business objectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
  • Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
  • Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.


Mandatory requirements:

Experience in:

  • Working with Azure API Manager
  • Working with Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud
  • Working with EKS
  • Working with landing zones in AWS and Azure
  • Deploying and managing Kubernetes-based applications
  • Setting up authentication, RBAC and security tokens based on Azure AD (EntraID)
  • Setting up and operating CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of artifacts
  • Analysis and design of automation tooling
  • Supporting application teams


Strong knowledge of:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
  • API Management
  • Apache Kafka
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure AD
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes