Confluent Kafka Administrator

Job Role: Confluent Kafka Administrator

Location: Louisville, KY / Remote

Job Description:

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Hands-on experience in Confluent Kafka:

• Experienced in setting up the configuration, security, and monitoring of Confluent Kafka components: brokers, zookeeper, control center, schema registry, and connect clusters.
• Experienced in the development of infrastructure solutions for publisher/consumer tenants, enabling robust multi-tenant cloud services.
• Experience in Microsoft Azure / Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
• Experienced in Dot Net tech stack
• RESTful services
• Micro services Architecture
• Windows console apps and Services
• Proficient in SQL and PostgreSQL Database
• Hands-on experience on CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub)
• Hands-on experience on terraform scripting, building pipelines and releases
• Hands-on experience of DynaTrace & Splunk
• Proficiency in Kubernetes

Roles & Responsibilities

• Set up and configure Kafka clusters, components like brokers, zookeeper, control center, schema registry, and connect clusters.
• Monitor cluster health and performance.
• Create, delete, and configure Kafka topics.
• Manage broker configurations and ensure high availability.
• Diagnosing and resolve issues related to data flow, broker failures, and consumer lag.
• Integrate Kafka with other systems/services (e.g., Azure/Google Cloud Platform services, restful APIs, databases, microservices etc).
• Provide support for Kafka-related issues in production. (Azure DevOps / GitHub). Experience working in agile development projects and sprint delivery
• Individual contributor and problem solver

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

• Experience working in agile development projects and sprint deliver.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills