Solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications
Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA in AWS and on-prem K8 Open Shift platform
Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.
Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.
Aid System Administrators with setting up Kafka platform in provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Chef or Jenkins
Experience in open source and confluence Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
Experience in Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator
Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support
Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL)
Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable.