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We are looking for a Senior Cloud Streaming Kafka Engineer for our client. This is a 100% remote, any state. Just need to be willing to work central hours . This is a 6 Months contract to hire.
Role: Senior Cloud Streaming Kafka Engineer
Duration: 6 Months contract to hire
Location: 100% remote, any state. Just need to be willing to work central hours
Must haves:
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- 8+ years IT experience background in system administration
- 2-3 years Kafka experience, specifically in the Confluent product
- Need to have enabled it in an Enterprise environment
- 5+ years Cloud any cloud is fine. They'll work with Google Cloud Platform in this role.
Job overview/scope of role:
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- Building a Kafka capability in Google Cloud Platform. Confluent is the vendor that is doing this for them.
- This role will help enable the streaming platform across the whole enterprise.
- Need someone to build/set up/manage it. And drive people on how to utilize it.
Skills:
- Experience in building, deploying, and managing Kafka Cloud services in Google Cloud Platform using Confluent Platform or other IaaS Solutions (or equivalent Cloud AWS, Azure)
- Experience with Confluent's Kafka Products and Platforms
- Experience with the Kafka Ecosystem of Tools: Rest Proxy, Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and scrum development
- Experience with Github Development or other Version Control System
- Experiencing working in a Product focused mindset
- Understanding of Data Mesh principals
- Understanding of SRE Principals and how to apply
- Experience with devops tool chain: CI/CD, IAC (Infrastructure as Code), Monitoring, Package Management, Version Control
- Experience with restful APIs
- Experience with Hashicorp Terraform to build and deploy in Cloud environments
- Experience with support large software systems or platforms providing service, products, and value to its users
- Hands-on experience in troubleshooting problems for mission-critical applications and services
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with diverse and distributed product teams in an agile environment
- Experience supporting critical applications in the Cloud, preferably in Google Cloud Platform
- Proficient in one or more programming and/or scripting languages: java, scala, python, bash, C
Responsibilities:
- Design and build Kafka Streaming Platforms and solutions to support the Enterprise
- Drive Kafka Product evolution and strategy to enable the Enterprise
- Involved in all aspects of design, automating, and deploying software products into Google Cloud Platform Cloud using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Using the DevOps toolchain to build automation across Cloud environments
- Supporting all Platforms and Services operationally for the Enterprise
- Work with cross-functional teams to identify the areas of opportunity to use Kafka and its tools for software solutions
- Bringing SRE mindset to drive operational excellence
- Drive monitoring and alerting requirements/implementation using SRE principals across Kafka products
- Collaborate with and mentor members of the team and other coworkers
- Be agile and embrace change
Please email the resume to OR call Prashanth