Job description
JD for Kafka.. 5+ 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. Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring. Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted in AWS / on-prem K8 Open Shift platform Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance, and overall health of the cluster. Experience in building Kafka pipelines using jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc. Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster. Aid System Administrators with setting up 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 High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support Hands on experience in standing up and administrating 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) Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery. Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automate key administration tasks. Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable. Demonstrate a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction. Ability to maintain a positive attitude while working with high demands and short deadlines that leads to working after hours. Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support. Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skillsNot Required, but Preferred: Experience with IBM Messaging Streams(MQ & APP Connect) and/or another real-time streaming solution is a plus. Experience in setting up Prometheus/Grafana or ELK monitoring tools is a plus. Experience as Linux (RHEL) /Unix administrator is huge plus. Understanding of or experience supporting Java application.