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Redolent, Inc.

Kafka Admin

Chandler, AZ · On-site

DOE Interview Mode: 1-2 rounds (video required) currently seeking a Kafka Administrator for an onsite position with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ. This is a 12+ month ...

Centraprise

Kafka Infrastructure Engineer

Chandler, AZ · On-site

$105K - $138K/yr

Kafka Infrastructure Engineer Job Location : Chandler, AZ (ONSITE) Job Type : Full-Time Skill: Kafka Infrastructure Engineer - Compliance-Driven IaC Automation * 7 - 10 years of hands-on experience ...

Sonsoft Inc

Java With Kafka

Phoenix, AZ

$50.75 - $65.50/hr

Qualifications Kafka Vert.x Solace Hazelcast Rx.Java Hystrix Zookeeper DB2 Oracle We are looking for a Production Support Analyst with technical experience in - * Kafka, Zookeeper (expert level)

Sonsoft Inc

Java With Kafka

Phoenix, AZ

$50.75 - $65.50/hr

Kafka Vert.x Solace Hazelcast Rx.Java Hystrix Zookeeper DB2 Oracle Qualifications We are looking for a Production Support Analyst with technical experience in - * Kafka, Zookeeper (expert level)

Sonsoft Inc

Java With Kafka

Phoenix, AZ

$50.75 - $65.50/hr

Kafka Vert.x Solace Hazelcast Rx.Java Hystrix Zookeeper DB2 Oracle Qualifications We are looking for a Production Support Analyst with technical experience in - * Kafka, Zookeeper (expert level)

Keylent Inc

Data engineer with Java, Kafka, K SQL

Phoenix, AZ · On-site

$113K - $136K/yr

Keylent Inc is seeking a Data Engineer with expertise in Java, Kafka, and K SQL. The role involves designing, developing, and supporting distributed database systems while participating in the entire ...

Tekgence Inc

Devops Engineer

Phoenix, AZ

$52.50 - $71.75/hr

Atos Syntel Main Skills Kafka; Redis; ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana) :: 1. Must have at least 5 years of Industry experience in Production support / Operations support / DevOps role ...

United IT

Senior Java Developer

Scottsdale, AZ · Hybrid

$58 - $73.75/hr

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Cloudera, Apache Kafka, and on-premises EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for container orchestration. Must have: Java, AWS Spring, REST ...

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United IT

Senior Java Developer

Scottsdale, AZ · Hybrid

$58 - $73.75/hr

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Cloudera, Apache Kafka, and on-premises EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) for container orchestration. Must have: Java, AWS Spring, REST ...

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Tror AI for everyone

Java Developer

Scottsdale, AZ · On-site

$51.50 - $66.50/hr

Java, AWS Spring, REST, Cloudera, Apache Kafka, and on-premises EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) JD: We are seeking an experienced Senior Java Developer with strong expertise in building and ...

Centraprise

AWS Solution Engineer

Chandler, AZ · On-site

Chandler, AZ (ONSITE) Job Type : Full-Time AWS Solution Engineer Required Skills and Qualifications: o Strong AWS Cloud skills o Confluent Kafka along with Automation using Terraform and Python ...

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Kafka Admin

Chandler, AZ • On-site

Redolent, Inc.
IT Services • 51 - 200 employees
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Position: Kakfa Admin (26-05185)
Location: Chandler, AZ (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
Duration: 12 month contract (ext up to 18 months)
Work Authorization: US,GC, TN, H4, OPT, (must provide card expiration needs to be after 5/1/2027)
Rate: DOE
Interview Mode: 1-2 rounds (video required)
currently seeking a Kafka Administrator for an onsite position with a Global Financial Institution located in Chandler, AZ. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.
This role focuses on the operational support and administration of a large-scale Kafka infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining the stability of production and non-production environments, including handling incident management, change requests, and system builds.
Responsibilities:
  • Perform operational activities which includes administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, change requests and builds
  • Provide Problem, Incident, Change and Request management support for the application using these platforms
  • Triage, service restoral, facilitation and coordination of root cause identification and permanent fix resolution
  • Responsible to handle the Kafka infrastructure and break fix the issues occurred in Production and Non-Production
  • Responsible to handle Changes in the Kafka Infrastructure
  • Build new Kafka servers and configure Kafka patching and fix packs
  • Work on Kafka monitoring tools
  • TLS upgrades and installation in prod and non-prod infrastructure

Requirements:
  • Ability to analyze the root cause and follow the ways to providing the permanent fix
  • Familiar in handling client calls and customer issues
  • Knowledge on complex clustered Environment
  • Good hands on Production environment to handle issues
  • Experience resolving critical issues on the fly
  • Ability to support application teams around messaging functionalities
  • Excellent communication skills both written & spoken
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Redolent, a dynamic and rapidly expanding company committed to excellence in software solutions, where success is fueled by a combination of technical expertise and efficient management practices. Our solutions create a measurable delta in our clients’ productivity and profitability, contributing to their growth and success.

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It services

Company size

51 - 200 Employees

Headquarters location

San Jose, CA, US

Year founded

2008

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