Description

Administer Kafka clusters on ROSA and OpenShift, ensuring high availability and security for web transaction systems.

This role is on-site.

Responsibilities

• Administer Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA (AWS) and on-premise OpenShift platforms.
• Provision Kafka platforms, manage access lists, and configure Kerberos and SSL.
• Design and build technical architecture components aligned with business requirements.
• Maintain system availability, scalability, and performance of web transaction systems.
• Support system administrators with Kafka platform provisioning and security configurations.

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 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 and topic sizing, and mirroring.
• Building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Shell scripts.
• Knowledge of Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Docker, Kubernetes, Chef, or Jenkins.

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree