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)