Kafka Engineer   (Remote)

 Kafka Engineer   (Remote)

Duration: Long Term

Experience level: 10+ Years

Job Description:  

·        7-10+ years of solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications 

·        Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements. · Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA in AWS and on-prem K8 OpenShift platform

·        Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc. 

·        Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission

·        based) on the Kafka cluster. ·

·        Aid System Administrators with setting up the Kafka platform in provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. · Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Chef or Jenkins 

·        Experience in open source and confluence Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center. 

·        Experience in Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator 

·        Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support 

·        Establish best practice standards for configuring Source and Sink connectors. 

·        Hands on experience in standing up and administering Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL)