JOB DESCRIPTION

Experience you’d be expected to have

MANDATORY
-    Experience in Kafka administration.
-    Ability of analytical thinking.
-    Ability to deal with difficult situations and work under pressure.
-    Ability to work as a team member with collaborative thinking.
-    Planning and Organizing Skills
-    Expert in upgrading, migrating and patching Kafka.

PREFERRED
-    Knowledge of TV and Broadcast systems and tools
-    As minimum 2 years of experience working as Kafka administrator.
-    Experience in virtual machines systems such as VMware and containerized systems such as Docker/Kubernetes.

The skills you’ll need to succeed

•    Story-telling with data: strong skills in building the case for change, drawing on data and analytical techniques where appropriate, and communicating this to business audiences
•    Business acumen: Knowledgeable in business strategy and the drivers of organisational performance, including people drivers of performance and financial literacy (e.g. business KPIs, business cases)
•    Kafka - A background in designing, building and supporting Kakfa technology

Why this job matters

-    The products we look after are key for TV and Media & Broadcasts to run to high SLA’s
-    Delivering 1st class, highly available Kafka Service
-    Delivering new projects, whilst maintain in life operational requirements.
 

What you’ll be doing

•    Administer and manage Kafka clusters for On-Prem Kafka infrastructure and Confluent Cloud.
•    Ensure support availability during agreed business hours.
•    Responsible for maintaining the availability, performance and security of Kafka infrastructure.
•    Upgrading Kafka following best practices
•    Monitor logs, metrics, and troubleshoot issues to maintain optimal cluster health.
•    Responsible for issue reporting and suggesting solutions to frequently occurring issues.
•    Help support Kafka plugins, connectors, and applications as needed.
•    Ensure knowledge sharing and documentations.
•    Integrate with the team.
•    Proactively and reactively fixing issues