DataOps - Kafka (Fully Remote)

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Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by over 250 million learners worldwide. Developed in conjunction with our community, Moodle LMS is complemented by an ecosystem of products including Moodle Workplace and a network of partners and services providing hosting, customisations and support. We also teach and support educators to create effective online learning experiences and share open education resources. Collectively, we empower educators to improve our world.

We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working and driven people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

Find out more about us on our website.

What your new job can look like…

The Kafka Data Engineer position is a crucial future part of the DevOps Team at Moodle.

You will have the opportunity to work with the latest cutting edge technologies, such as Kafka, ElasticSearch and Cassandra. Building out our in-house data lake solution, from constructing the data ingestion pipelines, combining and liberating the data - to ensuring full operational efficiency.

As a key role, you will be engaging with stakeholders and help unearth many insightful buried treasures. Even adding in some machine learning and data science when given the chance.

With an additional opportunity of knowledge sharing and learning all about DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform, Salt, CI/CD, AWS, etc.

What You Will Do

• Aid in the architecture building the data lake solution from the ground up
• Create, stabilize and operate multiple data pipelines.
• Configuring sources, sinks, partitions, replication and consumer groups.
• Provide your expertise and passion for all things data and sharing with the team as lead data engineer.
• Helping to instrument the environment and funnel metrics through automated monitoring and reporting solutions.

We'd love to meet you

Especially if you can talk to us about your:

• Kafka ecosystem experience, setting up and working with Kafka brokers, Connect, Zookeeper, ksqlDB, ElasticSearch and Cassandra.
• Your ability to build enrich processes within the data pipe, especially around CDC.
• Any past experiences providing in-depth business insights in R or Python.
• Have excellent English language skills - verbal and written.

What's in it for you?

We’ve already talked about the importance we place on achieving our mission to empower educators to improve our world, our passion for our values and some of the cool things we are doing as a company.

So what about this?!

• Working on the very latest techniques utilizing Kafka to provide amazing business insights
• Whilst learning all about cutting edge DevOps technology such as Kubernetes, CI/CD, etc
• We don’t believe in formal dress codes, bring your full self to work in your own style
• Plus, we’ll provide you with a competitive salary

Does all this sound good? If yes

• Click on the following link to apply
• Add your resume and anything else you'd like to add…
• Press send.

*Please be aware that this is a contract role, not a permanent position.

Moodle is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Moodle is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Moodle are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Moodle will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Moodle encourages applicants of all ages.