Arity Platform Engineering - Kafka (hybrid or remote)

• About Us

   

  The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

   

  You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

   

  Allstate operate a very flexible hybrid working policy that will allow you to design your working week in collaboration with your manager with a blend of remote and office working for NI based employees as well as condensed working patterns (4 day week/9 day fortnight). Employees based in GB will be employed on a permanent remote working contract.

   

  Join our team and you’ll find challenge and reward in a culture of innovation, support and balance. 

   

   

  Location

   

   

  Belfast/ Derry-Londonderry/ Strabane/ Remote, GB

   

   

  Your role in the team

   

   

  Founded by The Allstate Corporation in 2016, Arity is a data and analytics company focused on improving transportation. We collect and analyze enormous amounts of data, using predictive analytics to build solutions with a single goal in mind: to make transportation smarter, safer and more useful for everyone.

   

  At the heart of that mission are the people that work here—the dreamers, doers and difference-makers that call this place home. As part of that team, your work will showcase both your intelligence and your creativity as you tackle real problems and put your talents towards transforming transportation.

   

  That’s because at Arity, we believe work and life shouldn’t be at odds with one another. After all, we know that your unique qualities give you a unique perspective. We don’t just want you to see yourself here. We want you to be yourself here.

   

   

   

  Engineering Team:

   

   

  Our engineers are fueled by a passion to impact the future of mobility. They push the boundaries of telematics and transportation tech by creating and supporting cutting-edge products. As part of an Agile team, they are armed with the freedom to innovate and the opportunity to see projects through from start to finish. Using a variety of languages and a top-notch technology stack, our engineers make critical advances in areas like sensor technology, enterprise engineering and platform development. Our team understands what it means to collaborate and communicate in an interconnected global team, all while having trust, transparency, and empathy for the end user. Which is pretty cool, if you ask us?

   

   

  Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

   

   

  At Arity we are utilizing cutting edge development languages, tools, web services and cloud technologies to deliver amazing capabilities and products. We are searching for talented and technical engineer.

   

  A successful candidate will be responsible for assisting with the design, implementation, and on-going support of Arity’s Kafka clusters hosted on AWS

   

  • You will focus on building Kafka pipelines.
  • You will engineer and administer the Kafka platforms
  • You will have knowledge and exposure to Kafka APIs
  • You will implement security & authorization on Kafka cluster
  • You will deploy monitoring tools and alerts.
  • You will have knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
  • You will collaborate within the team and across all engineering teams in Arity
  • You will secure applications by automating scanning and updates
  • You will be passionate about platform technology.

   

   

   About You:

   

   

  • You have a proven ability to work within aggressive timelines.
  • You have a willingness to step up, take the initiative and work independently.
  • You have excellent listening and communication skills. You must be able to communicate   technical information clearly, across a range of technical and non-technical individuals
  • Good understanding and appreciation of industry trends within cloud and platform technologies
  • Good research and analytical skills
  • Good problem-solving skills with a focus on quality and stability
  • Be a team player, highly enthusiastic and self-motivated
  • Be a self-starter who can work unsupervised
  • Be customer focused.

   

   

  So, what are the essential criteria to apply?

   

  • All candidates must evidence an existing right to work in the UK'
  • 3+ years’ platform engineering experience and
  • 2+ years Kafka Administration experience.
    • Knowledge creating Kafka topics; setting up redundancy cluster.
    • Knowledge and experience creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL) 
    • Experience with open-source Kafka, Confluent Kafka, or MSK, zookeeper, Kafka connect, schema registry Avro schemas.
    • Experience of Knowledge of high availability kafka cluster setup, maintenance, and ongoing support.
  • Experience using Ansible, Cloud formation templates/Terraform modules, shells etc.
  • Experience using AWS.
  • Experience using Jenkins, GitHub

   

   

  We also have some desirable criteria

   

  • Willingness to learn and quickly adopt new platform technologies
  • Understanding of the values of Enterprise Change, Release, and Incident management
  • Experience monitoring Kafka with tools like Lenses, Control Center, Kafka Tool, or Burrow

   

   

  What we offer

   

  As Digital DNA’s Workplace of the Year 2020 & 2022 winners, we offer a generous benefits package that includes flexible annual leave entitlement, dental and healthcare insurance, an attractive pension package and discounts on gym memberships, public transport and parking.

   

  Allstate invests heavily in your development, as an employee you will have access to multiple world-class learning platforms and courses from our award-winning in-house Learning & Development team.

   

  We pride ourselves in providing clear career paths and opportunities for internal mobility allowing you to further develop within the organisation.

   

  We encourage a better work life balance and you’ll have the opportunity to apply for various flexible working arrangements.

   

   

  Apply Here: https://bit.ly/3lnkOl9 

   

   

  Statement on Fair Employment and Equal Opportunities

   

  Allstate NI wishes to ensure equal opportunity is given to all job applicants.  This company will not discriminate on the grounds of race, gender (including gender reassignment status), sexual orientation, religious belief, political opinion, marital status, age or disability.

   

  We are an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. However, as women are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from women. All appointments will be made on merit.

   

  Applicants should note Allstate NI complete AccessNI background checks on all candidates offered a position.

   

   

  The closing date for receipt of applications is Tuesday 31st May 2022