On Site Job: KAFKA Admin in Las Vegas, NA

[Vineet Sharma]

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Key Requirements:

• Candidate need to be on site from Day 1
• At least 5+ Years exp in Kafka Administration

 

 

Role: Kafka Engineer

Location: Las Vegas, NV

Duration: 12+ Months

VISA: No OPT/CPT

 

Objective:

• The primary objective of the Kafka Administrator is to develop and maintain the corporate messaging infrastructure ensuring message delivery, security, retention, and recoverability of the topics and messages.
• In this role, the Kafka Admin will design, build, test, and deploy quality messaging and streaming solutions that are consistent with project objectives, technology architecture standards and departmental best practices.
• The Kafka admin will design and implement event sourcing strategies, administer enterprise-wide messaging architecture, and provide daily management of Kafka eco-system.

 

Specific responsibilities include:

• Manage large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on AWS and on-prem OpenShift platform.
• Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster.
• Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, performance and overall health of the cluster.
• Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as for storage infrastructure.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automate key administration tasks.
• Ability to closely collaborate with product managers and lead engineers.
• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts ·
• Proactively monitor and setup alerting mechanism for Kafka Cluster and supporting hardware to ensure system health and maximum availability · Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster ·
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support.

 

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years of solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications 
• Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA in AWS and on-prem K8 Open Shift platform
• Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc. 
• Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.
• Aid System Administrators with setting up Kafka platform in provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
• Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Chef or Jenkins 
• Experience in open source and confluence Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center. 
• Experience in Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator 
• Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support 
• Establish best practice standards for configuring Source and Sink connectors. 
• Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL)
• Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable. 
• Demonstrate a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.
• Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and present recommendations.
• Ability to maintain a positive attitude while working with high demands and short deadlines that leads to working after hours.
• Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills Not Required, but Preferred: 
• Experience with Oracle Streams and/or another real-time streaming solution is a plus. 
• Experience in setting up Prometheus/Grafana or ELK monitoring tools is a plus. 
• Experience as Linux (RHEL) / Unix administrator is huge plus.
• Experience in PostgreSQL, SQL Server, No-SQL (Couchbase), Oracle, and AWS Cloud is a plus.
• Understanding of or experience supporting .NET / Java application. 
• Understanding of or experience with Programming languages like Python, PowerShell, etc is plus.

 

Physical

Requirements Physical requirements include: 

• Availability to work various shifts, extended hours and to provide on-call support as required.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, hand and power tools, and to handle other computer components. ·
• Lifting, bending and transporting of heavy to moderately heavy objects, such as computers and peripherals.
• Visual acuity to read technical documents, computer screens and to accurately identify small parts and components.
• Ability to bend, stretch, and crawl under desks

 

Education

• BS/BA degree in a related technical discipline.

 

 

 

VINEET SHARMA

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vine...@1pointsys.com

Sr US IT Recruiter | 1Point System LLC

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