21 Mar
Confluent Kafka Administrator - Contract to Hire (W2 - No C2C or 1099) - Franklin, TN or REMOTE
Tennessee, Franklin , 37067 Franklin USA

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Confluent Kafka AdministratorThe Confluent Kafka Administrator will be responsible for assisting with the design, architecture, implementation, and on-going support of Kafka clusters on an Event Streaming Architecture Pilot project. In this role, you will manage large scale multi-node Kafka cluster environments. We need a resource to handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning, and ongoing monitoring. Finally, in this role, you will perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka Cluster

  • Standing up and administering on premise and Azure Kafka platform.
  • Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
  • Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions
  • Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
  • Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
  • Use automation tools like provisioning using open shift, Docker, Jenkins and cp-ansible.
Required Skills:
  • Minimum of 7 years of professional experience
  • Experience administering the following Event-Driven Architecture Components:
  • 5 years with Apache/Confluent Platform Kafka
  • 2 years ZooKeeper, Confluent Control Center, Confluent Schema Registry, Connect cluster
  • Understanding of Data access, Data Retention, and archiving
  • Experience performing Confluent Platform installation, upgrades, and maintenance
  • Experience working with Confluent Security Plugins
  • Experience on cp-ansible is a bonus
  • 6+ years of experience as the Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
  • 3 years of professional experience in Kafka Admin
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / equivalent preferred
For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla ator Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area. Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them. So at iTech Solutions, our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience. We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects. Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

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