Sr. Kafka Engineer

LPL Financial Sr. Kafka Engineer

Location : 1050 LPL Way Fort Mill South Carolina 29715 Onsite role.

6-month contract with potential to extend

Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix**

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.

What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

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 ups from the team.
Understands change management importance/procedures.
Embrace and demonstrate automation first approach
Should be a team player and ready to spread knowledge within the team.

Preferences:
Bachelors 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 Terraform.
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.