Kafka Admin - Onsite

• Experienced with one or more scripting languages, Python, Ruby, Bash, and/or NodeJS. 
• Experience in Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements. 
• Experience in implementing Kafka platform in provisioning, implementing security & authorization on Kafka cluster 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)
• Experience in Kafka, Zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Mirror Maker
• Establish best practice standards for configuring Source and Sink connectors.
• Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance, and post implementation support.
• Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Good understanding of OS (RHEL/Centos), SAN Storage, Networking technology, load balancer SSL/TLS, and Firewall.
(Desired Skills)
• Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Chef or Jenkins.
• Experience with container technology Kubernetes, Docker.
• familiar with Opensource monitoring products (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience with bigdata technology (Hadoop echo system) is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication ability
• Ability to work well within a globally distributed team, maintain a positive attitude while working with a high throughput platform demands short deadlines 
• Passion about cutting edge Opensource technology and staying current with industry trends 
• Great problem-solving skills with the ability to see and solve issues.