Kafka Infrastructure Engineer/Administrator

Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Kafka Infrastructure Engineer/Administrator on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 82937

Work Location:
Irving, TX
Summary:
This role involves L3 Production Support, Engineering, User Onboarding to Kafka, analyze and identify existing Production issues and recommending appropriate solutions.
Responsibilities:

• Implement and use monitoring and observability tools, including splunk, grafana, AppDynamics, JMX, to ensure system health and performance is measured.
• Identify problem causality, business impact and root causes
• Document requirements for complex, high-impact application enhancements and problem resolution.
• Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and security issues; communicate impact and propose risk mitigation options.
• Utilizing ticketing tools such as JIRA, ServiceNow for issue tracking and collaboration.
• Plan and execute existing Middleware Integrations to Kafka, with minimal disruption and optimal performance.

Required Skills:

• Strong administrative, L3 and Engineering experience for Confluent Kafka and managing large-scale multi-region Kafka cluster environments.
• Requires Confluent Kafka subject matter and hands-on administrative experience
• Expertise in installing, administration, Production Support and maintaining Confluent Platform components including Apache Kafka and related tools.
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture Components: Apache Kafka, Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper, etc.
• expertise in scripting technologies such as SHELL or Python for software automation

Pay: $64-$81 per hour.

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