Senior Systems Engineer

Job Summary

Enterprise Healthcare client has an immediate opening for a highly motivated Senior Systems Engineer to join their dynamic and growing team. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Location

Telecommute

Job Type

Contract

Salary

$54.01 - $64.01 per hour

Work Hours

8am to 5pm

Education

Bachelors

Responsibilities

The Kafka teams manage and maintain all Kafka platforms at Centene. We are organized into three teams: one dedicated to self-hosted Kafka platforms, another to Confluent Cloud (SaaS Kafka), and a third focusing on the cloud gateway and global DNS. With over 130 client applications leveraging these platforms for data streaming, our responsibilities include platform maintenance, automation, client support, production support, enabling self-service, enhancing current platforms, and introducing new capabilities.

As a shared service, our primary objective is to administer and manage Kafka platforms. We do not frequently engage in project work. This resource will be working on data integration using Kafka between Centene and its approved third-party vendors. One list projects include:

• SoftheonCloud - Wave 2
• Simplify Health
• Concert - PISCES integration

Each team follows Agile methodology and consists of scrum teams with 5-9 members, depending on the team. Team members participate in daily scrum ceremonies and frequently collaborate outside these ceremonies through paired programming, troubleshooting, issue resolution, and knowledge sharing.

No planned hiring needs as of now.

Typical Day in the Role

• Administer Kafka platforms on-prem and in cloud
• Develop new services/ enhancements
• Coach junior team members
• Provide client support
• Incident management
• Solution engineering
• Develop Proofs-of-Concept
• Code reviews

Candidate Requirements

Education/Certification Required

• Bachelors Degree Preferred

Years of Experience Required

• 4-6 years minimum

Disqualifiers

• Utilizing AI assistance during interview

Additional Qualities to Look For

• Apache Kafka administration
• Confluent Cloud/ Platform administration
• Event Driven Architecture, Event Streaming (Kafka preferred), NoSQL DB (Mongo Preferred), DevOps, CI/CD

Top 3 Must-Have Hard Skills (Stack-ranked by importance)

1. Kafka Administration
2. AWS Experience
3. Event Driven Architecture
4. Monitoring/alerting and logging tools preferably Dynatrace and Splunk
5. DevOps/CI/CD
6. Cloud Engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelors

Equal Opportunity Employer

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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