Kafka Engineer / SME
The Judge Group Inc.

Location: Owings Mills, MD
Salary: Depends on Experience
Description:
Job Title: Kafka Engineer / Sme

Location: Owings Mills, MD

Type: 6+ Months

Primary responsibilities of this role are

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 General

• 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

Contact: gpamnani@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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