Senior Confluent Consultant (Remote)

About Us:

Merrick Synergy is a solutions integrator partnering with innovative software companies to enable enterprises to apply AI, Data Engineering, and Application modernization technologies to solve seemingly impossible business problems.  We are life-long learners who care deeply about delivering valuable outcomes without corporate politics and red tape. If you want to be part of a team that values the freedom to implement all those solutions that your boss squashed, then you have come to the right place.  We’re also flexible on your side hustles if you have passion projects outside of work. 

About the Role:

We are looking for technical consulting architects for project assignments ranging from 3 months to 1 year projects (with options to renew contracts).  Applicants must also have US citizenship or a green card. 

You will play a crucial role in helping our customers develop event-driven architectures and applications. The ideal candidate has a track record of learning quickly and can come up to speed on Apache Flink and Kafka Streams, on the Confluent Platform. Hands-on knowledge with Spark, Hadoop, and Storm, as well as relational and NoSQL databases, is a very strong nice-to-have. 

In this role, you will design and implement event-driven architecture and applications, applying Confluent best practices. You will also deliver training and enablement to the customer as part of the acceptance process.

About Our Offer:

We’re offering a C2H position where you will start as a contractor for a 4 week period and complete training that prepares you to deliver solutions within our framework. Upon successful completion and placement on our project, you will be offered a W2 hourly (with benefits) or may opt to maintain a 1099/C2C hourly position.  

Responsibilities:

• Assist the customer in defining their transition from legacy architecture and applications to a real-time, event-driven business model

• Implement an event-driven infrastructure from the ground up, or modernize existing infrastructure as customer needs dictate

• Deliver customer training and enablement on the new infrastructure

• Document the new architecture, list reference materials, and develop run books for customer use

What We’re Looking For:

• US Citizen or Green Card Holder

• An individual contributor focused on solving challenging technical problems, with a proven track record of working with minimal daily supervision

• 5+ years of experience configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting Red Hat and Debian-based Linux distributions

• 3+ years of experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high-throughput systems

• 1+ years of experience with Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, the Confluent platform and/or other stream processing solutions

• Ability to design and implement microservice architectures

• Ability to adapt quickly to complementary technologies

Nice To Haves:

• Proficiency in Shell, JavaScript, Java, C, C++, Python, Rust

• Experience developing event-driven applications

Compensation & Benefits:

• Job Type: Contract to Hire

• Pay: Hourly

• Rate: 

• W2 - $100/hr + Health, Dental, Vision, Disability & 401K

• 1099 - $117.50 All Inclusive

• Yearly Compensation: $175,000 - $220,000

• Remote

• Flexibility to accommodate your side hustles