3 months ago
Boston, MA, USA or San Francisco, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$170k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Administer and optimize Amazon EKS environments, including cluster scaling, node group management, namespace provisioning, and container resilience.
- Operate, scale, tune, and govern Kafka clusters, including topic management and availability and latency SLOs.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for Kafka and Kubernetes using Sumo Logic.
- Partner with software engineering teams to design reliable and scalable applications using Kubernetes and Kafka.
- Manage cloud environments with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and Pulumi.
- Build and maintain GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure deployments.
- Support on-call operations and improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.
Requirements
- Proven experience running containerized workloads in production on Kubernetes or comparable environments such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-hosted Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts including compute, networking, and IAM, with experience in AWS or another major cloud provider such as GCP or Azure.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Ability to write automation and tooling in Python, Go, Node, and Bash.
- Experience designing and operating GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions or a similar tool.
- Preferred: production Kafka experience covering architecture, broker configuration, topic management, replication, and troubleshooting in high-throughput environments.
- Preferred: experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, custom GitHub Actions or composite actions, stateful Kubernetes workloads, and developer experience or CI/CD optimization.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureBashGitHub ActionsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsPythonSumo LogicTerraform
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About CloudZero
CloudZero builds a SaaS FinOps platform that analyzes cloud and AI infrastructure spend to provide unit economics and engineering-level cost insights. It helps product, finance, and DevOps teams allocate costs, detect anomalies, and optimize usage across providers such as AWS. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Boston, the privately held company sells subscriptions to enterprises building software at scale.