Technical Lead - Remote job - Long term contract

One of my client is urgently hiring a Technical Lead. It's a fully remote role. Below are the details. Please apply for immediate consideration.

Tasks:

• Delivery of a new API Management platform, based on Azure APIM in a hybrid cloud environ-ment composed of the on-prem Data Centre, and EIBG Landing Zones in AWS and Azure. This includes an internal decentralized Azure APIM with self-hosted gateways (in AWS EKS and on-prem Tanzu), and an external, centralized Azure APIM with Web Application Firewall.
• Extension of the existing on-prem Event Streaming (Confluent Kafka) Platform with a man-aged clusters in the cloud to be used in AWS and Azure.
• Integration of both platforms (API Management and Event Streaming) with Azure AD as the identity provider for application registration and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Automation tooling for application teams for easy deployment of APIs, Kafka topics, and RBAC management.
• Migration of application teams to the new API Management platform.
• Onboarding of new cloud applications to the Event Streaming platform in the cloud.

Skills:

• University (M.Sc.) degree in computer science, mathematics, physics or engineering (or equivalent applied experience).
• Background in public and/or private financial services institutions, insurance undertakings or equivalent institutions preferred.
• Experience with prototyping and leading software development teams on large-scale implementation projects.
• Strong proficiency in one or more coding languages (eg, Java, JavaScript, C#, Python).
• Experience with development platforms (eg, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc.).
• Knowledge of software development methodology, design and life cycles.
• Strong ability to understand context for source code, the source codebase, and its relation to business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.

Mandatory requirements:

Experience in:

• Working with Azure API Manager
• Working with Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud
• Working with EKS
• Working with landing zones in AWS and Azure
• Deploying and managing Kubernetes-based applications
• Setting up authentication, RBAC and security tokens based on Azure AD (EntraID)
• Setting up and operating CI/CD pipelines for the deployment of artifacts
• Analysis and design of automation tooling
• Supporting application teams

Strong knowledge of:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.
• API Management
• Apache Kafka
• Azure DevOps
• Azure AD
• Terraform
• Kubernetes