Overview

Tuva, an Akima Company, provides turnkey solutions that offer better systems, tools, and methods to further your goals, reduce costs, and streamline operations. From requirements analysis, design, and implementation to operations and training Tuva’s personnel are well-versed in best practices across enterprise IT, mission support Services, and specialized technologies. Our personnel enjoy competitive benefits packages and challenging roles in work environments committed to innovation, diversity and opportunity for career growth. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), 100% of our company’s profits go back to our more than 14,000 Iñupiat shareholders that have resided near and above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. Our business helps support their way of life and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived in a challenging environment.

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide expert cloud-related Kafka related support necessary for successfully executing the migration of NCIC to the cloud. The NCIC is a computerized database of documented criminal justice information consisting of 21 files. All of the existing NCIC and new N3G functionality will be migrated to, and developed on, an approved public cloud, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud, requiring real-time communication and data exchange between the mainframe and the public cloud for a transitional period of time.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka.

• 5+ years of experience with data integrations.

• Bachelors Degree.

• Physical deployment of infrastructure across multiple environments.

• Optimization and tuning.

• Relational database replication.

• Encryption in flight and at rest.

• Data replication validation.

• High availability relative to Kafka.

• Disaster recovery relative to Kafka.

• Standards and pattern development.

• User guide development and training overviews for supporting teams.

• Provide troubleshooting and best practices methodology for development teams.

• Design monitoring solutions and baseline statistics reporting to support the implementation.

• Ansible or Python scripting.

• Linux/Red Hat operating system commands.

• Experience with JIRA, Git repo, Bitbucket, and Confluence.

• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret.

Desired Qualifications:

Preferred: however, not required:

• Experience where the relational data replication source is mainframe based (e.g. DB2).

• Experience with Elastic Stack.

• Experience with Agile software development (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban).

• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation.

• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible.

• Experience with other database systems and data models.

• Experience with software engineering.

• Experience with Python, JSON, or Java.

We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability, or have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us at job-assist@akima.com or 571-353-7053 (information about job applications status is not available at this contact information).

Job: Information Technology

Travel: Yes, 25% of the time

Organization: TUVA

Clearance: SECRET

Work Type: Remote

Remote: Yes

ReqID: 2024-3173