Senior Kafka Administrator

Overview

On Site
$60+
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
No Travel Required

Skills

Git
Maven
Gradle
Ansible
Jira
BitBucket

Job Details

Job Title : Senior Kafka Administrator

Work Location: Whippany, NJ (Hybrid-2 days)

Position Type: Contract

 
 
 

Description:

  • Experience with the Linux environments and Bash scripting.
  • Experience with Kafka operations and administration. The individual will be asked to lead the triage sessions with multiple tenants.
  • Must have ability to review client application configuration and architecture.
  • Provide onboarding support to prospective tenants on 1-O-1 setting.
  • Participate and Lead Regular engagement forum to interact with tenants and answer any questions.
  • Individual will be part of L3 support team and expected to handle support activities during weekend and off business hours.
  • Experience with monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch and others.
  • Experience in Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef.
  • Must have ability to query for patterns in log and dashboard querying(promQL)
  • Experience with developer tools: Git, Maven, Gradle
  • Must have experience in contributing to code repository to meet automation requirements (pull, push, merge, rebase, clone and other git essentials)
  • Familiar working in an Agile structure (Scrum or Kanban) with project management tools: Jira, BitBucket.
  • Ability to produce quality documentation and diagrams.
  • Regular activity will include creation/revision of Runbooks on Confluence Page

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

  • Kafka has to be Primary skill set.
  • Experience in Monitoring and tuning of Kafka stack.
  • Experience using open-source Kafka stack and command line Kafka utilities
  • Ability to breakdown complex problems using appropriate design patterns and best practices demonstrating a strong knowledge foundation and a sound approach to problem-solving.
  • Ability to build automated pipelines that integrate and transport software through reliable, secure, and governed channels from conception to production.
  • Ability to build a suite of real-time monitoring and automation software that encompass resilient and self-healing platform operations.
  • Ability to conduct effective triage and remediation of production incidents with accompanying customer service and support for all clients of the platform.