Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect - Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL

Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect - Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL

Our client seeks an

Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect

for a

12 Months

project in

Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL.

Below is the detailed requirement

Title:

Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect

Location :

Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL

Duration: 12 Months

Job Description:

Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Information technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline or equivalent experience with 12+ Minimum Experience

We need someone who's good at setting up CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Confluent CFK, Kubernetes, Vault, SonarQube, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, and Harness. It's also important that DevOps Architect has experience with deploying the applications on Kubernetes using Rancher, Helm Charts and Harness. Plus, he/she should know about deploying Kafka MRC or CFK and the use of monitoring tools like Logic Monitor and Splunk. And it'd be great if he/she has experience with AWS services and on-prem as hybrid environment, especially setting up Confluent CFK or MRC, and know how to do S3 replication with Cloudian.

Kubernetes Administration:

Helm

CRDs

K8 Operators

All general things in K8 including PVCs

CFK Administration:

Kafka

Kraft/Zookeeper

Kafka Connect

Kafka Monitoring like consumer lag, broker health, topics growth, etc.

Kafka Cluster Management (Topics, Partitions, Brokers, etc.)

Kafka Backup Solution and Support

Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem

Experience with Rancher RKE2 K8s clusters and orchestration platform

K8S cluster management, Monitoring, operational tools integration

K8s cluster and secrets management integration

K8s CSI plug-ins with object, file and block storage vendors

Kubernetes backup solution and support

S3/Cloudian object storage for shared infrastructure

Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps

Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management

Hands on experience with migrations tools

Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible.

Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages.

Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (K8s)

Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus.

Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure

Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like Maven/Gradle, Java, and distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

Good to Have

Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage

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Dice Id:

10120137

Position Id:

2025-64064