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Role: DevOps Architect with Confluence
Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX - Need locals to these locations or from closeby areas only
Duration: 12 months plus
Experience: 14 years and above only No less
Description:
"DevOps Architect with Confluent Kafka (MRC/CFK), Kubernetes expertise. Customer is required by regulators to demonstrate the ability to run all clearing and risk systems through internal datacenter ( On-Prem ) and to be able to switch all production functionality running through On-Prem within the predefined SLA. The newly developed clearing and risk systems takes advantage of scalability, ease of provision, and the reduced cost offered by cloud services (AWS) and the cloud offered Multi-Region as Disaster Recovery (DC) strategy.
Must have:
We need someone who's good at setting up CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Confluent CFK, Kubernetes, Vault, SonarQube, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, and Harness. It's also important that DevOps Architect has experience with deploying the applications on Kubernetes using Rancher, Helm Charts and Harness. Plus, he/she should know about deploying Kafka MRC or CFK and the use of monitoring tools like Logic Monitor and Splunk. And it'd be great if he/she has experience with AWS services and on-prem as hybrid environment, especially setting up Confluent CFK or MRC, and know how to do S3 replication with Cloudian.
Kubernetes Administration:
- Helm
- CRDs
- K8 Operators
- All general things in K8 including PVCs
- CFK Administration:
- Kafka
- Kraft/Zookeeper
- Kafka Connect
- Kafka Monitoring like consumer lag, broker health, topics growth, etc.
- Kafka Cluster Management (Topics, Partitions, Brokers, etc.)
- Kafka Backup Solution and Support
- Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem
- Experience with Rancher RKE2 K8s clusters and orchestration platform
- K8S cluster management, Monitoring, operational tools integration
- K8s cluster and secrets management integration
- K8s CSI plug-ins with object, file and block storage vendors
- Kubernetes backup solution and support
- S3/Cloudian object storage for shared infrastructure
- Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps
- Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management
- Hands on experience with migrations tools
- Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages.
- Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (K8s)
- Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus.
- Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure
- Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like Maven/Gradle, Java, and distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
- Good to Have
- Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage"