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Title: Kafka Flink Lead
Location: Bolingbrook, IL (Onsite role - 3 days biweekly)
Duration: Contract
Mandatory skills: Confluent Kafka, Advanced Knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink
Job Description:
- Extensive experience architecting, implementing, and administering Confluent Cloud Kafka platform in production environments.
- Advanced knowledge of KSQL DB and Flink for real-time stream processing/analytics.
- Proven proficiency in Kafka Connectors from configuration to end-to-end integration in cloud environments.
- Strong background in platform governance: schema registry, RBAC, audit logging, retention, and compliance.
- Deep expertise with Terraform and the Confluent Terraform provider; Infrastructure-as-Code methodology and automation.
- Practical experience designing and managing Harness CI/CD pipelines or other similar tools.
- Advanced knowledge of Google Cloud Platform networking, including Private Service Connect (PSC), DNS, Firewalls and enterprise security.
- Track record in implementing cloud-native monitoring and observability solutions; troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
- Thorough experience with Disaster Recovery (DR), High Availability (HA) strategies, backup/restore, and multi-region design.
- Practical experience with cost optimization, resource monitoring, and right-sizing in Confluent Cloud.
- Strong abilities in schema management, version compatibility, and data governance.
- Demonstrated capability in capacity planning, partitioning, and scaling streaming architectures.
- Experienced in Agile/DevOps methodologies.
- Experience providing hands-on production support for mission-critical streaming platforms.
- Experience in working with an offshore/on-site model. The position requires gathering requirements on-site, creating detailed design documents and coordinating with offshore for the development/delivery.
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