Job Description:

* 5-6 years of solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications

* Strong knowledge on Linux

* Strong knowledge on Cloud Services. Azure cloud experience is a plus.

* Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.

* Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on any cloud is a plus.

* Experience in Kafka build pipelines using Ansible, Cloud formation templates (Terraform) , shells etc.

* Experience in Jenkins, GitHub

* Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.

* Experience in open source Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, Kafka Manager.

* High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing support

* Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts Has good knowledge of best practices

* Exposure to Kafka APIs

* Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)

* Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support staff.

* Involvement with grouping/clustering and high-volume systems.

* Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.

* Manage large scale multi-nodes cluster environments residing on any cloud

* Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster

* Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.

* Proven track record of sound, effective decision making.

* Excellent listening and communication skills.

* Must be able to communicate technical information clearly, able to 'translate' between diverse groups of technical and non-technical individuals.