Description

You will manage and support Kafka clusters within a high-transaction environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and configure technical architecture components based on business requirements.
• Administer Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA in AWS and on-premise OpenShift platforms.
• Support system administrators with Kafka platform provisioning, access lists, Kerberos, and SSL configurations.
• Maintain system availability and scalability for web transaction systems.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of Unix/Linux (RHEL) administration experience.
• 5 years of Kafka administration experience.
• 2 years of MSK (Kafka in Cloud) experience.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters on ROSA (AWS) and OpenShift.
• Strong understanding of Kafka use cases and architecture.
• Proficiency with Unix and Kafka.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and No-SQL databases.
• Bachelor's degree.

Preferred Skills

• Experience standing up Kafka platforms from scratch, including broker sizing, topic sizing, and mirroring.
• Building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Shell scripts.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka, Zookeeper, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, KSQL, and Kafka Control Center.
• Implementation of security, authorization, and ACLs on Kafka clusters.
• Experience with Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator.
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, or Jenkins.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree