Infrastructure Engineering Advisor

Duties

Perform Kafka cluster build, including design, infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Implementing wire encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper.

Creating connect cluster and connector deployment.

Good understanding of Schemas and schema registry

Help maintain current Kafka clusters by performing upgrade, performance tuning, monitoring setup, adding new features, etc.

Research new features and conduct proof of concept installation and testing.

Ability to work with various infrastructure, development and administration teams.

Support of Kafka in On-Premise and Cloud AWS and Azure

Help/Support Application Teams with respect to their Kafka Implementation and Issue triage

Work with Vendor partners to open cases and work with them to resolution

Work with security team to remediate product vulnerabilities

Work with application teams to gather requirements and understand the design and help them with the build path to production

Work with application teams to do performance and resiliency testing

Implementing best practices and work with product owners to implement the roadmap

Good understanding of provisioning resources in AWS and/or Azure

Creating the instances, storage volumes and security groups

Basic understanding of networking and load balancing, okta integration

Basic automation skills using shell scripting, ansible and terraform

Documenting the best practices

Team player

Have hands on experience in the following: create topics, grant permissions, offset reset, troubleshooting issues, upgrade cluster, installing various Kafka components via ansible scripts (broker, zoo keeper, connect, schema registry, KSQL)

Familiar with writing/updating ansible scripts.

Experience with research and POC of new features/technology

AWS/Azure experience
Skills

Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Python, kSQLDB, terraform.

Education

Bachelor degree (REQUIRED) or higher in relevant field

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.