Contract job opportunity--Kafka Admin - remote

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Job description

Position- Kafka Admin (With Linux Experience)

Location: Fully Remote

Job-Type- Contract

Job Description-

Client is a leading provider of platforms, digital innovation, artificial Intelligence and end-to-end IT & Business services and solutions for Global 1000 companies. We are transforming corporations through deep domain expertise, knowledge-based ML platforms, as well as profound anthropological efforts to understand the end customer and design products and interactions that create delight. We are deeply committed to developing a comprehensive understanding of our clients' problems and to develop platforms to address them.

Responsibilities:

• Manage large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on Linux.
• Experience with Linux environments/administration
• Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.
• Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance and overall health of the cluster.
• Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as for storage infrastructure.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks.
• Ability to closely calibrate with product managers and lead engineers.
• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts
• Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster
• 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 AWS
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support staff.
• Partner with business units in order to improve the effectiveness of business decision

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of solid Kafka Admin experience
• Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on Amazon cloud is a plus.
• Experience in Kafka build pipelines using Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.
• Experience in Jenkins, GitHub
• Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.
• Experience in open source Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry Avro schemas.
• High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing support
• Has good knowledge of best practices
• Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform 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 Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Comfortable performing in a fast paced, dynamic and ambiguous business environment.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and present recommendations to a vast array of individuals.
• Ability to structure documents to effectively communicate with senior leadership and drive alignment and decision making.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to offer why one technical solutions is more preferable than another.
• Ability to analyze and interpret complex concepts.
• Ability to work in a team environment in a collaborative manner.
• Proven track record of sound, effective decision making.

Education-

Bachelor's Degree required

- provided by Dice