CIAM Consultant

Location: Chicago, IL Salary: $60.00 USD Hourly - $90.00 USD Hourly Description: Our client is currently seeking a Data Platform Consultant(Hybrid in Chicago)

I. Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field-or equivalent practical experience
• 5-7 years of combined experience in software development and technical support/production operations roles
• Minimum 2-3 years of hands-on development experience with production-grade code
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues within enterprise-scale production environments
• Experience working with distributed systems and cloud-based data architectures
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, streaming architectures, and ETL/ELT processes
• Demonstrated capability to work under pressure, manage multiple parallel incidents, and coordinate resolutions across teams
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to root-cause analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for creating documentation, runbooks, and collaborating with engineering teams
• Experience leading incident response and driving post-incident improvements

II. Skills & Experience Required

Required Technical Skills

• AWS Cloud Services Hands-on experience with core AWS components such as S3, EC2, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC networking
• Strong understanding of AWS architectural best practices
• Kubernetes Expertise troubleshooting containerized workloads
• Experience with pod-level debugging, resource constraints, networking policies, and storage-related issues
• SQL Proficiency Advanced SQL skills for deep data analysis, performance optimization, and data quality troubleshooting
• Kafka Experience supporting Kafka streaming ecosystems
• Skilled in diagnosing consumer lag, partition rebalancing, connector failures, and broker-level performance issues
• Java Development Strong Java development background
• Ability to read, interpret, and debug Spring Boot/Spring Batch applications, including memory leaks, threading problems, and application crashes
• Splunk Proficiency with SPL queries, log analysis, dashboard creation, and alerting for proactive monitoring
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) Experience with distributed tracing, observability practices, and correlating logs, metrics, and traces
• HashiCorp Vault Hands-on knowledge of Vault for secrets management
• Troubleshooting authentication failures, token expiry, and secret rotation challenges
• CI/CD Pipelines Strong understanding of deployment workflows
• Ability to diagnose build failures, deployment issues, and execute rollback procedures
• Incident Management Proven experience leading incidents, driving root-cause analysis, preparing postmortems, and implementing preventive measures

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