Kafka Administrator (Remote)

Kafka Administrator (Remote)

We have an immediate need for a contract Kafka Administrator to join a premier management consulting firm.

Location: Remote

This job expects to pay about $70 - 75 per hour.

What You Will Do:

• Building and administering Apache/Confluent Kafka messaging platform in a cloud environment (AWS, EKS).
• Designing and implementing highly available high-volume messaging infrastructure with Apache Kafka on AWS.
• Configuring and managing Kafka brokers, Zookeeper, Topics, and connectors for setup and administration.
• Setting up monitoring and management tools for efficient data growth management.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate monitoring, management tools, and data solutions.
• Working on cloud migration solutions and maintaining production environments.
• Utilizing modern IDEs (e.g., Visual Studio Code, Intellij) for effective development.

What Gets You The Job:

• Strong experience in building and administering Apache/Confluent Kafka messaging platform.
• Strong experience in designing and building highly available high-volume messaging infrastructure with Apache Kafka on AWS (e.g. stretch cluster, active/active or active/passive) using Mirror Maker or other replication tools.
• Must have experience with Nifi & Cloud
• Good experience with Schema Registry, Kafka connectors (source and sink) and KSQL, have worked with Kafka brokers, Zookeeper, Topics, connectors for Setup and administration
• Strong experience in setting up monitoring and management with tools. Working knowledge integration of monitoring, management tools and data growth management
• 5+ years of experience on Confluent Kafka
• 3+ years of experience on Confluent Kafka Cloud, Kafka Control Central, Confluent Kafka Connect, Confluent Kafka Security feature
• 2+ years of experience in Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana / Splunk) and engineering cloud migration solutions.
• Experience in working with modern IDE’s (such as Visual Studio Code, Intellij)
• Proficiency in Python and Unix scripting for automation.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management.
• Must have worked in production environments
• Experience with Admin Core Administration
• Experience with DevOps: TerraForm

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