Kafka Administrator (702 views)

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Title: Kafka Administrator

Location: Atlanta GA

Rate: DOE /If your experience and skills match call us immediately for submission

Duration: Long Term

Interview Type: Skype or Phone

Work Status:  Successful applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Job Type:  ,W2

Experience: 6 YEARS

Preffer W2: U S C/G C/H1B Transfer/OPT/CPT/H4 EAD and other US work authorization are accepted

Job Description:

• At least 5+ years of Hands-on development experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with the interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper, Producers/Consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
• Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model
• Strong fundamentals and experience in Kafka administration, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Understand and experience with 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

• Experience with developing KSQL queries and best practices of using KSQL vs streams
• Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework, with experience using several connector types: HTTP REST proxy, JMS, File, SFTP, JDBC, Splunk, Salesforce
• Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams clusters
• Knowledge of connectors available from Confluent and the community
• The familiarity of the Schema Registry and its management
• Best practices to optimize the Kafka ecosystem based on use-case and workload, e.g. how to effectively use topic, partitions, and consumer groups to provide optimal routing and support of UDF and UDAF
• Scripting proficiency with Java/Scala/node.js and best practices in development
• Experience with monitoring Kafka infrastructure along with related components (Connectors, KStreams, and other producers/consumer apps)
• Familiarity with Confluent Control Center