Description

Job Description:

• Must be local to Atlanta.

 

Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of IT Professional experience with a minimum of 5 years of experience working as a Kafka administrator.

• Hands-on experience in event streaming and stream processing technologies like Spark & Flink.

• Experience in the Atlassian stack tools Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket (GIT).

• Experience in Monitoring & Alerting tools like Newrelic, Grafana & Prometheus.

• Experience in Ansible automation development.

• Experience in Jenkins automation development.

• Experience in the scripting languages shell and Python.

• Experience in the operating systems Linux (RedHat) and Windows Server.

• Experience in virtual machine systems such as VMware and containerized systems such as Docker/Kubernetes.

• Ability to work as a team member with collaborative thinking.

 

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Design & build open-source/vendor-supported Kafka infrastructure.

• Responsible for maintaining the availability, performance, and security of Kafka infrastructure.

• Develop and maintain automation processes for Kafka infrastructure.

• Responsible for managing Kafka infrastructure monitoring and alerting in Newrelic.

• Responsible for issue reporting and suggesting solutions to frequently occurring issues.

• Ensure knowledge sharing and documentation.

• Integrate with the team, supporting middleware technologies as needed.

• Responsible for managing Linux-based Kafka environment.

• Responsible for troubleshooting Kafka producer & consumer applications.

• Participating in ad-hoc projects allocated by the Management and completing them within agreed timeframes.

• Professional skills development by participation in training and constant self-education

• Kafka Platform

Education

Bachelor's degree