Kafka Platform Administrator

ITTConnect is seeking a Kafka Platform Administrator to work for one of our clients in the Atlanta area. This client is a global leader in consulting, digital transformation, technology and engineering services present in nearly 50 countries. Their account involved in this role is in the Telecom area (internet, cable TV).

Job location: Remote working Eastern time hours, but Atlanta highly preferred

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 New Relic.
  
• 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 to manage Linux-based Kafka environment.
  
• Responsible to troubleshoot 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.
  

• 10+ years of IT Professional experience with a minimum of 5 years experience working as Kafka platform architect/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 New Relic, Grafana or 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 machines systems such as VMware and containerized systems such as Docker/Kubernetes.
  
• Ability to work as a team member with collaborative thinking.
  
• Bachelor’s degree in IT or equivalent experience.