Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix

Overview

On Site
$46 - $56 hr
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12+ mo(s)

Skills

FOCUS
Cloud Computing
Unix
Operating Systems
Storage
File Systems
Network Protocols
Messaging
Documentation
Management
Production Support
Apache Kafka
Build Automation
Middleware
Roadmaps
GitHub
Ansible
Terraform
Puppet
Soft Skills
Communication
Change Management
Linux
Dynatrace
JProfiler
Performance Tuning
Database
DevSecOps
Continuous Integration and Development
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Agile
Project Delivery
Release Engineering
SANS

Job Details

Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix
Fort Mills, SC Onsite (M-F)
12+Month Contract

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as a Confluent Cloud and Kafka team member to design / install / deploy / administer the platform.

  • Provide 24x7 support when on call.

  • Partner with architecture team to drive platform alignment to modern architecture practices.

  • Patch, create Roadmaps, and assist junior engineers

  • Build automation for install and platform management activities, such as restarts, patching, and other scenarios.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years in platform engineering and management involving Middleware technologies with a focus on Confluent Cloud and Kafka

  • 3+ years of experience with Installation, configuration and administration of Confluent Cloud or Kafka

  • 3+ years of experience with UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, and network protocols.

  • 3+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems using messaging platform

  • 2+ years of creating great documentation that enables other team members to learn and execute platform engineering and management activities.

Core Competencies:

Technical skills:

  • 3+ years experience in production support for Confluent or Kafka platform including troubleshooting and fixing production defects.

  • 3+ years applying DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns to build automation. Able and ready to learn and support other Middleware technologies in support of Platform Engineering roadmap with DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, software defined engineering patterns, and use of GitHub or comparable code repository.

  • 3+ years of experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and other Infra automation technologies

Soft skills:

  • Very good written and verbal communication skills. Should be able to create good documents.

  • Preferring someone who takes end to end responsibilities of the issues and drives them to closure with minimal support and follow Client from the team.

  • Understands change management importance/procedures.

  • Should be a team player and ready to spread knowledge within the team.

Preferences:

  • Bachelor s degree

  • Must be able to use Linux commands and tools to troubleshoot issues, parse and evaluate log files.

  • Experience with application profiling using tools such as Dynatrace, VisualVM or Jprofiler.

  • Experience with performance tuning for JVMs, web containers, DB connection pools, etc.

  • Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevSecOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile project Delivery, Release Engineering.

Metasys Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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