Kafka/DevOps Engineer

Looking for Kafka/DevOps Engineer.
Must be able to go Onsite 2 Days/Week in Maryland.
Must be able to take the Coding Test along with F2F Interview!!!.
End Client: T. Rowe Price.

Job Description -

Job Description -

< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;"> looking for a Kafka Engineer who has automation experience. Based on years of experience they are looking for and the budget they are looking for a mid level developer. </>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Job Title: Kafka Engineer</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">End Client: T. Rowe Price</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Location: Owings Mills MD Hybrid (Two days a week onsite & final interview to be onsite) Must have valid LinkedIn profile with photo ( Must be authentic linkedin no recent creation stuff)</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Contract Length: 6 months (likely to renew or extend long term)</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Notes from Call: </>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Hands on Engineer, built some of the Kafka initial parts, new resource to do stage and production build out</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Hands on scripting, building API's (Python or GoLang or Java). Will be tested on their preferred language</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Kafka Engineer w/ automation experience, how to monitor the operations</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Well rounded Kafka engineer with automation experience (infrastructure automation). Can be strong w/ either Terraform or Ansible</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- 1st part of interview will be hands on coding test (remote test). Three total rounds of interviews</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Would like to do onsite final interview </>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Operational Kafka experience in enterprise environment</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- Should also have AWS experience. 2-3 years Kafka experience minimum, 5+ years total experience</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">- No MSK being used in the role, but happy to have people with that knowledge</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Job Description:</>< style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 1rem; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-block-start: 1.33em;">Job Description: Kafka Engineering Job Description

Role Description
The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux.
The candidate will be working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent cloud, Schema Registry, KStreams, and technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes to develop and manage infrastructure-related code on AWS platform.

Responsibilities
Support systems engineering lifecycle activities for Kafka platform, including requirements gathering, design, testing, implementation, operations, and documentation.
Automating platform management processes through Ansible, Python or other scripting tools/languages .
Troubleshooting incidents impacting the Kafka platform.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design scalable solutions that meet business needs.
Develop documentation materials.
Participate in on-call rotations to address critical issues and ensure the reliability of data engineering systems.
Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and reliability of Kafka in AWS environments.

Experience
Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues (e.g. including internal and external SaaS/PaaS, troubleshooting network flows).
Able to demonstrate experience supporting technical users and conduct requirements analysis
Can work independently with minimal guidance & oversight.
Experience with IT Service Management and familiarity with Incident & Problem management
Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues.
Demonstrated ability to effectively work across teams and functions to influence design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.
Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.

Required Technical Expertise
Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kafka and its various components.
Strong Knowledge in Kafka Connect, KSQL and KStreams.
Implementation experience in designing and building secure Kafka/streaming/messaging platform at enterprise scale and integration with other data system in hybrid multi-cloud environment.
Experience in working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry, and KStreams Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale.
Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure.
Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures.
Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance.
Background in both Systems and Software Engineering.
Strong understanding and working knowledge, experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster.
Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS.
Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda , EKS and VPC. Working knowledge of networking - VPCs, Transit Gateways, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
Experience in monitoring and visualizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
Competent developing new solutions in one or more of high-level language Java, Python.
Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment.
3+ years of Python and Shell Scripting.
3+ years of AWS DevOps experience.
Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.

Preferred Technical Experience
Certification in Confluent Kafka and/or Kubernetes is a plus</>