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Job Description
Locations : Seattle,WA/St. Louis, Mo / TX / Any client location
Good to Have:
Job Description
- Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience, managing, maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability, disaster recovery, fail-over and overall reliability
- Kafka ecosystem tooling experience: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry
- Proficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards), Prometheus, JMX metrics and Splunk
- Automation and orchestration experience: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE) or equivalent
- Scripting and tooling experience: Python or Bash for automation and runbooks
- Strong Linux system administration experience, including troubleshooting, automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.
- Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.
- Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms: TLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption at rest/in transit
- Experience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations, JVM tuning, Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics and documenting incidents/postmortems
- Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations
Locations : Seattle,WA/St. Louis, Mo / TX / Any client location
Good to Have:
- Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experience
- Knowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once, exactly-once)
- Cloud-native security/compliance experience (IAM, VPC, KMS, Security Groups)
- Certifications: Confluent Certified Administrator, AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform certifications
- Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode, including set up, configuration, troubleshooting and cluster management
- Containerization and Container Orchestration Tools experience: Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows
- Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg: Avro, JSON)