Kafka Architect

Mandatory Skills - DevOps, Kafka,Splunk , Ansible, Grafanna
Responsibilities:
Consult with inquiring teams on how to leverage Kafka within their pipelines
Architect, Build and Support existing and new Kafka clusters via IaC
Partner with Splunk teams to route trac through Kafka by utilizing open-source agents and collectors
deployed via Chef
Remediate any health issues within Kafka
Automate (where possible) any operational processes on the team
Create new and/or update monitoring dashboards and alerts as needed
Manage a continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline
Perform PoC s on new components to expand/enhance team s Kafka oerings Skills & Qualifications:
5+ years of experience with Kafka clustering & administration
5+ years of experience building, deploying, and supporting multiple Kafka clusters using IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) best practices
Experience developing automated processes within and around Kafka to help supplement the service
Experience working with multiple teams to build and architect data pipeline solutions where Kafka will be involved.
Experience with Linux/Unix and system management
IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) experience with Virtual/Physical Servers using Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc.
Understanding of Git workflows, continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) concepts
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong technical acumen
Strong analytical skills
Experience working in Agile/Lean methodologies Preferred Qualifications:
Knowledge and experience with Splunk, Elastic, Kibana and Grafana
Knowledge and experience with log collection agents such as Open-Telemetry, Fluent Bit, FluentD, Beats and LogStash.
Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes / Docker
Knowledge and experience with Kafka-Connect
Knowledge and experience with AWS or Azure
Knowledge and experience with Streaming Analytics