Position: Sr. Kafka Lead/Architect

Location: Lower Manhattan, NY(2-3 days onsite is required as must)

Duration: 12 + Months



Looking for a Kafka Engineer who will provide subject matter expertise in
the strategic positioning of the Event Processing Middleware,
Architecture and Deployment
of Confluent Enterprise Kafka within organization, as well as strong hands
on experience to aid in troubleshooting endeavours. 50% architecture/lead
capability.



Responsibilities:

- Experienced in working with high level stakeholders to strategically
position Event Processing Middleware within an organization.
- Experience designing secure and stable Kafka platforms.
- Physical deployment of infrastructure across multiple environments.
- Optimization and tuning of Kafka plant for peak performance.
- Standards and patterns development for Kafka usage.
- User guide development and training overviews for supporting teams.
- Provide troubleshooting and best practices methodology for development
teams.
- Process automation and new application on-boarding, integration with
CICD pipeline.
- Design monitoring solutions and baseline statistics reporting to
support the implementation.
- Level 3 support for development teams that are utilizing the platform.
- Planning and execution of infrastructure projects as well as
on-boarding of new application development projects
- Mentors L1/L2 support groups.
- Partner with development teams to provide Kafka



Kafka: (Minimum must-have?s)


- Established track record with Kafka technology, with a deep
understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works,
along with interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper,
producers/consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
- Strong fundamentals in Kafka administration, configuration, and
troubleshooting
- Knowledge of Kafka clustering, and its fault-tolerance model
supporting HA and DR
- Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, KStreams, and Connector
infrastructures, with the motivation to build efficient platforms
- Best practices to optimize the Kafka ecosystem based on use-case and
workload
- Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated
clustering model
- Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build
producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing
KStreams components. Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed
KStreams clusters
- Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework, with experience using
several connector types: HTTP REST proxy, JMS, File, SFTP, JDBC, Splunk,
Salesforce, and how to support wire-format translations. Knowledge of
connectors available from Confluent and the community would be a plus
- Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new
Kafka Connectors using the framework
- Strong familiarity of wire formats such as XML, JSON, Avro, CSV, etc.
along with serialization/deserialization options
- Familiarity of the Schema Registry




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