Kafka Admin

Responsibilities:

• Kafka Ecosystem Administration: Lead the administration, management, and operational support of Confluent Kafka environments, including both on-premise and Confluent Kafka Cloud.
• Component Management: Manage and optimize core Kafka components and related Confluent platform features such as Control Center, Rest Proxy, HA Proxy, Confluent Kafka Connect, and Confluent Kafka Security features.
• Database Integration: Work extensively with various databases including Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, and RDS databases, ensuring seamless integration with Kafka.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage and operate Kafka deployments on cloud platforms, with a strong preference for AWS, demonstrating expertise in cloud solutions.
• Large System Scaling: Apply proficiency in building and scaling large, end-to-end systems using high-performance languages like Java, Python, or GoLang.
• DevOps & CI/CD Implementation: Implement and manage DevOps practices, including Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, utilizing tools such as GitHub, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Monitoring & Alerting: Utilize monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk for comprehensive Kafka cluster health monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.
• Cloud Migration Engineering: Contribute to and lead engineering efforts for cloud migration solutions, specifically for data streaming architectures.
• Linux Scripting & Networking: Leverage strong Linux Shell Scripting skills and a solid understanding of Networking concepts for system administration and troubleshooting.
• Container Orchestration: Deploy and manage Kafka on container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (K8), Amazon EKS, or GoCD.
• Software Development Lifecycle: Possess experience across all facets of the software development life cycle, including analysis, design, development, data conversion, data security, system integration, and implementation.
• Tools & IDEs: Work proficiently with modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ.

Required Skills:

• Strong and recent experience as a Kafka Admin, with a foundational understanding of Java.
• Extensive experience (4+ years) on Confluent Kafka or (3+ years) on Confluent Kafka Cloud.
• Proficiency with Kafka Control Center, Rest Proxy, HA Proxy, Confluent Kafka Connect, and Confluent Kafka Security features.
• Working experience (3-5+ years) with different databases such as Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake, or RDS databases.
• Experience (3-5+ years) with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, with a preference for AWS.
• Proficient in building/scaling large systems using Java/Python/GoLang or other high-performance languages, developer tools, CI/CD, DevOps, Github, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience (2+ years) on Monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk, and engineering cloud migration solutions.
• Strong experience (3-5+ years) with Linux Shell Scripting and a good understanding of Networking concepts.
• Experience (2+ years) with K8 / EKS / GoCD deployments.
• Experience in all facets of the software development life cycle.
• Experience in working with modern IDEs (Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ).
• Strong understanding of DevOps principles including Terraform.

Good to Have:

• AWS Solutions Architect certifications.
• Experience with automated deployment tools beyond those listed.