Description
You will manage and maintain production Kafka environments.
Responsibilities
- Administer Kafka in production environments with 8+ years of experience.
- Operate and support the Confluent Kafka platform and its associated ecosystem tools.
- Design and maintain distributed data pipelines using Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and KSQL.
- Implement and manage infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, Helm, or Ansible.
- Ensure system availability through knowledge of networking, load balancing, and HA configurations.
Required Skills
- 8+ years of hands-on Kafka administration experience in production.
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems and scripting (Bash, Python).
- Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and KSQL.
- Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes, Open Shift) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible).
- Solid grasp of authentication, authorization, and data encryption.