Looking for Kafka Admin Position Available In York, South Carolina
Tallo's Job Summary: Looking for a Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix experience for an ONSITE position in Fort Mill, SC. Responsibilities include designing, installing, deploying, and administering the platform, providing 24x7 support, partnering with architecture team, patching, creating roadmaps, assisting junior engineers, and building automation. Requirements include 5+ years in platform engineering, 3+ years with Confluent Cloud or Kafka, UNIX and LINUX experience, strong understanding of distributed systems, and creating documentation. Core competencies involve technical skills in production support, applying DevSecOps, using automation technologies, and soft skills in communication, problem-solving, change management, and teamwork. Preferences include a Bachelor's degree, proficiency in Linux commands, application profiling, performance tuning, and understanding modern work practices.
Job Description
Looking for Kafka Admin
Confluent Kafka Admin with Unix
ONSITE at Fort Mill, SC
Responsibilities:
Serve as a Confluent Cloud and Kafka team member to design / install / deploy / administer the platform.
Provide 24×7 support when on call.
Partner with architecture team to drive platform alignment to modern architecture practices.
Patch, create Roadmaps, and assist junior engineers
Build automation for install and platform management activities, such as restarts, patching, and other scenarios.
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class client experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements:
5+ years in platform engineering and management involving Middleware technologies with a focus on Confluent Cloud and Kafka
3+ years of experience with Installation, configuration and administration of Confluent Cloud or Kafka
3+ years of experience with UNIX and LINUX operating systems, storage environments, file systems, and network protocols.
3+ years of strong understanding of distributed systems using messaging platform
2+ years of creating great documentation that enables other team members to learn and execute platform engineering and management activities.
Core Competencies:
Technical skills:
3+ years experience in production support for Confluent or Kafka platform including troubleshooting and fixing production defects.
3+ years applying DevSecOps and Infrastructure as Code patterns to build automation. Able and ready to learn and support other Middleware technologies in support of Platform Engineering roadmap with DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, software defined engineering patterns, and use of GitHub or comparable code repository.
3+ years of experience with Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and other Infra automation technologies
Soft skills: Very good written and verbal communication skills. Should be able to create good documents. Preferring someone who takes end to end responsibilities of the issues and drives them to closure with minimal support and follow ups from the team. Understands change management importance/procedures. Should be a team player and ready to spread knowledge within the team.
Preferences:
Bachelor s degree
Must be able to use Linux commands and tools to troubleshoot issues, parse and evaluate log files.
Experience with application profiling using tools such as Dynatrace, VisualVM or Jprofiler.
Experience with performance tuning for JVMs, web containers, DB connection pools, etc.
Possess a thorough understanding of modern work practices such as DevSecOps, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile project Delivery, Release Engineering.
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10448305
Position Id:
8620517
