Kafka Cluster Administrator

Job Description :

• Standing up and administer on premise Kafka cluster.
• Ability to architect and create reference architecture for kafka Implementation standards
• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
• Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages / platforms.
• Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
• Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins and GitLab.
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.
• Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestion in Kafka usage.
• Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine tuning alerts on Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana ,Splunk.
• Setting up security on Kafka.
• Providing naming conventions, Backup & Recovery and problem determination strategies for the projects.
• Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security related issues.
• Provide strategic vision in engineering solutions that touch the messaging queue aspect of the infrastructure

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