Kafka Developer

Remote • Posted 14 hours ago • Updated 14 hours ago

Contract W2

Contract Independent

No Travel Required

Remote

Depends on Experience

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Skills

Apache Kafka
Apache Cassandra
RESTful
Spring Framework
Database
JMX
Streaming
SSL
Capacity Management

Summary

Job Description:

Excellent Cassandra DB skills
Excellent REST API, Spring boot skills
Good Kafka skills

Design, deploy, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across multi-environment production infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and optimal performance for mission-critical message streaming workloads.
Monitor cluster health, manage broker configurations, perform capacity planning, and troubleshoot latency and throughput issues using administrative tools (kafka-topics, kafka-configs, kafka-consumer-groups, JMX metrics).
Implement security policies including authentication (SASL/SSL), authorization (ACLs), and encryption in transit; manage topic lifecycle, replication factors, and retention policies aligned with business requirements.
Conduct cluster upgrades, apply patches, and maintain documentation; collaborate with platform engineering and application teams to support producer/consumer integration and resolve operational issues.
Optimize resource utilization, implement monitoring/alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Datadog), and drive disaster recovery procedures to maintain SLAs; stay current with Kafka ecosystem developments including KRaft mode and emerging architectural patterns.

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Dice Id: 91099677
Position Id: 8925404
Posted 14 hours ago

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