at Volt Management Corp. in Springfield, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Your future? Let's build it!Volt is immediately hiring for Kettle Engineer - Remote
As a Kettle Engineer you will: We're seeking a Kettle Engineer to design, operate, and continuously improve our Pentaho Data Integration (PDI/Kettle) platform and data movement processes that underpin business critical workflows. You will own end-to-end lifecycle management-from environment build and configuration to orchestration, monitoring, and support-partnering closely with application teams, production operations, and data stakeholders. The ideal candidate combines strong hands on Kettle expertise with solid SQL, automation, and production support practices in a fast moving, highly collaborative environment.
Primary Responsibilities
- Platform ownership: Install, configure, harden, and upgrade Kettle/PDI components (e.g., Spoon) across dev/prod.
- Process engineering: Migrate, re-engineer, and optimize jobs and transformations for existing transformations.
- Reliability & support: Document all workflows including ownership and escalation protocols. Knowledge transfer with Automation and Application Support teams.
- Observability: Implement proactive monitoring, logging, and alerting for the Kettle platform including all dependent processes.
- Collaboration: Partner with application, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver improvements to existing designs
- Required Qualifications
- Kettle/PDI expertise: Experience installing and configuring a Kettle instance (server and client tools, repositories, parameters, security, and upgrades).
- Kettle/PDI expertise: Experience creating, maintaining, and supporting Kettle processes (jobs/transformations, error handling, recovery, and performance tuning).
This is a full time Contract opportunity.
Required Skills
The ideal candidate will have: SQL, integrating Kettle, DataDog, CloudWatch, Python
- 4+ years hands on SQL (writing/diagnosing and optimizing queries).
- Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences; effective at documenting and sharing knowledge.
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience integrating Kettle with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure); familiarity with containers or Windows/Linux server administration.
- Exposure to monitoring/observability stacks (e.g., DataDog, CloudWatch, or similar).
- Scripting/automation for operations (Python, PowerShell, or Bash); experience with REST APIs within Kettle.
- Background in financial services or other regulated/mission critical environments.
- Key Outcomes (First 90 Days)
- Stand up or validate a hardened Kettle environment with baseline monitoring and runbooks.
- Migrate at least two high value Kettle workflows using shared templates and standardized error handling.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications
CloudWatch, Azure, Bash
Pay Rate: $85 - $90 per hour
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.
Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
Benefits: Volt offers benefits (based on eligibility) that include the following: health, dental, vision, term life, short term disability, AD&D, 401(k), Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
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