Kafka Administrator

Role: Kafka Administrator (Middleware Engineer).

Rate : 55/hr on C2C

Work Auth : All Except H1B

Client : Westfield
Home Office at Westfield Center Ohio
Required to work hybrid, in office Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Salary on conversion is $85,605 - $95,000.00.

Job Summary:
The Middleware Engineer, is an role working under moderate supervision, is responsible for the delivery, optimization, and scalability of middleware assets, services, and APIs. The role collaborates with various IT Teams to ensure successful and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors. The role requires an understanding of middleware infrastructures as well as supports XML and web services. The role optimizes the performance of integration environments by planning, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting various systems integrations.
Job Responsibilities:

• Assesses, deploys, and supports middleware products that provide capabilities for advanced application business functionality and security, across a wide and varied portfolio of products in an enterprise hybrid environment.
• Develops solutions for middleware platforms by creating a standard framework or utilizing automation, where applicable, to efficiently reuse existing components and ensure consistent repeatability in deploying applications.
• Performs a variety of troubleshooting services across multiple middleware platforms in production and non-production environments.
• Executes middleware technology roadmap initiatives to ensure platform currency, stability and optimization and installs routine security related patches to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Stays current with existing and emerging technologies, practices, trends and polices through research, industry events, networking, and other educational and information opportunities.
• Works with technology vendors and application development teams on implementing technical services, tools, and techniques.
• Monitors system services use, validating that performance levels experienced meet Service Level Agreements/Operating Level Agreements and recommends mitigation strategies if required.
• Collaborates with business units, and other technology teams to coordinate the implementation of middleware capabilities and components and ensures successful, seamless, and secure communication between various IT systems, application components, and vendors, both internal and external.
• Demonstrates personal accountability and ensures successful team outcomes by proactively identifying and mitigating delivery impediments, dependencies, and risks.
• Engages in Disaster Recovery planning.
• Participates in proof-of-concept studies to evaluate technology decisions.

Job Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in Middleware Technologies or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and/or commensurate work experience.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Collaborates
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Nimble Learning

Required Skills:

• Proven experience in Apache Kafka topics and connectors and related tools
• Demonstrated knowledge of Software Containerization and Kubernetes
• Understanding of build and deployment process ideally with tools such IBM UCD and Azure VSTS
• Understanding of Cloud Technologies
• Troubleshooting

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of Middleware platforms such as MuleSoft, IBM MQ, IBM App Connect, and IBM DataPower
• Familiarity with log management technologies such as Dynatrace and Graylog
• Insurance industry knowledge