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Kafka Platform Administrator

ITTConnect, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383


Job DescriptionITTConnect 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.Requirements

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.

Benefits

N/A