Resiliency Architect

Client Name: Kforce

End Client Name: Financial Services Company Name Confidential

Job Title: Resiliency Architect

Location: Tampa, FL

Work Type: Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Job Type: Contract (Through End of Year, likely extension)

Rate: $70/hour on w2

LinkedIn needed

Notes:

• Interviews ongoing - urgent requirement
• End client is a major financial services provider specializing in clearing, settlement, custody, and risk management for securities transactions
• Strong opportunity for extension beyond EOY

Job Description:
Seeking a skilled Resiliency Architect to design and implement chaos engineering experiments that assess and improve the stability and fault tolerance of large-scale distributed systems. This individual will lead efforts in building a resilient architecture by working closely with cross-functional engineering teams and utilizing advanced cloud and observability tools.

What Will You Be Involved With?

• Design, implement, and execute chaos experiments to test the resilience of our distributed systems.
• Develop and maintain a robust framework for chaos engineering, including tools, automation, and documentation.
• Collaborate with engineers across different teams to identify potential areas for chaos experiments.
• Analyze and interpret experiment results, providing actionable insights to improve system resilience.
• Contribute to the development of best practices and standards for chaos engineering within the organization.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices in chaos engineering, distributed systems, and cloud architectures.

What Will You Bring to the Table?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proficient in programming languages such as Python or Go, with the ability to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking principles.
• Proven experience with AWS services and architecture, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, and Lambda.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, with hands-on experience using technologies such as Cassandra and Kafka.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) practices and tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, passionate about reliability and performance improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.