21 Mar
Confluent Kafka Administrator - Contract to Hire (W2 - No C2C or 1099) - Franklin, TN or REMOTE
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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.
- 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
Vacancy expired!