GemFire Platform Engineer

Request ID:69337-1
Title: GemFire Platform Engineer
Locations: Louisville, TN
Duration: 6 Months
Experience Requested: 7+ Years
Pay Range: $35.00-39.00/Hour on W2 (All inclusive)
Applicant must be willing to work on W2.

Job Description:
Role Overview Design, build, and maintain best-practice standards for the GemFire platform, including cluster sizing, region modeling, high availability, and disaster recovery. Partner with internal application teams to translate business and technology needs into scalable and resilient GemFire solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively identify opportunities to enhance processes, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and operational tooling for the GemFire platform
• Recommend optimization strategies for memory usage, query performance, data partitioning, and overall cluster efficiency
• Serve as Tier-3 escalation point, supporting SRE and L2 Operations teams in diagnosing and resolving complex GemFire-related issues, including performance bottlenecks, failovers, and cluster stability events
• Develop automation scripts, utilities, and monitoring dashboards to improve reliability, observability, and operational maturity of the GemFire ecosystem
• Create and maintain runbooks, architectural diagrams, operational standards, and troubleshooting guides
• Provide occasional weekend or after-hours on-call support to ensure the stability, resilience, and continuous availability of the GemFire environment

Essential Skills

• 3+ years of experience in Software Engineering or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, or education
• Hands-on experience with GemFire, including cluster configuration, region design, WAN replication, and performance tuning
• Proficiency in Java (primary language for GemFire development)
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, in-memory data grids, partitioning, data eviction policies, and caching strategies
• Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including DNS, LDAP, Load Balancers, TCP/IP, Firewalls, TLS/SSL, and certificate-based authentication for troubleshooting and support

Desirable Skills

• Familiarity with .NET or other JVM-based languages (Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins)
• Performance monitoring and observability expertise
• SRE practices and on-call experience

Experience Required 7+ years in distributed systems engineering with hands-on GemFire experience

Tech Stack Core: GemFire, Java, Distributed Systems Infrastructure: DNS, LDAP, Load Balancers, TCP/IP, Firewalls, TLS/SSL DevOps: Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, CI/CD Monitoring: Performance monitoring tools and dashboards

Company Benefits & Culture

• Inclusive and diverse work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

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