Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

• Experience with Apache Kafka: topic design, consumer groups, offset management, and schema evolution (Avro / Protobuf with Schema Registry).
• Familiarity with Kafka deployment and operations on Kubernetes (Strimzi Operator or Confluent Platform).
• Exposure to stream processing frameworks such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or Spark Structured Streaming.
  
  

location: Westlake, Texas

job type: Contract

salary: $75 - 76 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology-related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required.
• 5 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating production Kubernetes clusters (self-managed or managed services such as EKS, AKS, GKE).
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes internals: workload scheduling, RBAC, network policies, Helm/Kustomize, Operators, and cluster autoscaling.
• Strong experience with DevOps practices and tooling: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD / Flux GitOps), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible), and container image management (Docker, container registries).
• Proven ability to build and maintain self-service developer platforms and golden-path templates on Kubernetes.
• 2 years of experience operating workloads on Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including networking, IAM, and cost optimisation.
• Strong knowledge of observability: metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), logging (ELK / OpenSearch), and distributed tracing.
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and API gateway patterns.
• Solid experience in Agile methodologies (Kanban and SCRUM).
• Strong technical design and analysis skills; ability to deal with ambiguity and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with strong collaboration skills across multiple teams.
  
  

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience developing microservices with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, REST APIs, and event-driven design patterns.
• Experience containerising and deploying Java applications to Kubernetes, including JVM tuning for container environments.
• Familiarity with build tooling (Maven, Gradle) and code quality practices (unit/integration testing, static analysis).
  
  

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.

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.