Kafka Infra Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Kafka Infra Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Irving, TX.

Responsibilities :

• Involves L3 Production Support, Engineering, User Onboarding to Kafka, analyze and identify existing Production issues and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Requires Confluent Kafka subject matter and hands-on administrative experience
• Expertise in installing, administration, Production Support and maintaining Confluent Platform components including Apache Kafka and related tools.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture Components: Apache Kafka, Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, etc.
• expertise in scripting technologies such as SHELL or Python for software automation
• Implement and use monitoring and observability tools, including splunk, grafana, AppDynamics, JMX, to ensure system health and performance is measured.
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Document requirements for complex, high-impact application enhancements and problem resolution.
• Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and security issues; communicate impact and propose risk mitigation options.
• Utilizing ticketing tools such as JIRA, ServiceNow for issue tracking and collaboration.
• Plan and execute existing Middleware Integrations to Kafka, with minimal disruption and optimal performance.

Required Skills:

• Strong administrative, L3 and Engineering experience for Confluent Kafka and managing large-scale multi-region Kafka cluster environments.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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