• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field and 3 years of experience in any Kafka systems administration role.
• Must have experience with: performing Kafka cluster build, including design, infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery;
• Implementing wire encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP and authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper;
• Creating Kafka connect cluster and connector deployment;
• Schemas and schema registry;
• Maintaining current Kafka clusters by performing upgrade, performance tuning, monitoring setup, and adding new features;
• Researching new features and conducting proof of concept installation and testing;
• Supporting Kafka in On-Premises and Cloud AWS;
• Kafka implementations and issue triage, including gathering requirements, understanding design, and assisting with build path to production, and performance and resiliency testing; remediating product vulnerabilities;
• Implementing best practices and working with product owners to implement roadmaps;
• Provisioning resources in AWS or Azure;
• Creating ec2 instances, EBS volumes, and security groups;
• Networking, load balancing, and okta integration;
• Automation using shell scripting, ansible, and terraform.