Google Cloud Platform/Kafka Engineer

Title: Onsite Engineer Location: Atlanta GA or Austin, TX We have a Contracting resource requirement and would appreciate your help in identifying a suitable onsite engineer based in either Atlanta or Austin.

We are looking for a resource with strong hands-on experience in the following areas:

• Streaming technologies: Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub for real-time event ingestion and stream processing.
• Google Cloud Platform ecosystem: Experience building and operating event-driven data pipelines and cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Application development and deployment: Experience deploying, configuring, and managing applications across environments, including CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and production release management.
• Distributed systems: Understanding of event-driven architectures, messaging patterns, scalability, fault tolerance, and monitoring of streaming applications.
• Production support and troubleshooting: Ability to diagnose streaming pipeline issues, optimize performance, and ensure reliability of production workloads.

We are looking for someone with strong technical ownership who can contribute to implementation, deployment, and ongoing operational support.