Kafka Operations Administrator

Hello

Greetings!!!

This is Sakshi from Jconnect INC
. Below is the requirement with my client. Please let me know if you are available for this role.

Title:
Kafka Operations Administrator

Location :
Seattle,WA/St. Louis, Mo

Duration:
Fulltime

JOB DESCRIPTION
:

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, GC Analysis, network and disk I/O diagnostics and documenting incidents/postmortems

Experience in TCP/IP, routing, switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

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/GCP 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)

If you are interested, please send me your updated resume ASAP with below details:

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Looking forward for your response..

Thanks and Regards,

Sakshi Tripathi

Jconnect Infotech Inc.

168 Barclay Center Ste. 347,

Cherry Hill, NJ 08034

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