Kafka Administrator

Description:

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Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Kafka administrator to join a team of engineers with closely with our clients. The ideal candidate is someone who has a track record of high-quality delivery, combined with a keen appetite to support software developments teams.

This is an operations/system administrator role. The successful candidate will be specifically looking after the provisioning and maintenance of the Kafka cluster; there will be a need to also work on Qlik (Attunity) a CDC (change Data Capture) tool.

• Manage large scale multi-nodes Kafka cluster environments residing on AWS or on-prem.
• Handle all Kafka environment upgrades, including capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support for the Kafka Cluster.
• Configure and manage Qlik (Attunity).
• System Administrator tasks.
• Implement solutions as per technical design and participate in design activities.
• Planning and estimation of tasks as part of the SCRUM team and strive for accuracy while meeting deadlines.
• Participate in changes, and continuous improvements to existing processes.
• Ability to work hands on in an agile work environment supporting your colleagues as required.
• Ability to work in a team and collaborate with multiple business and technical teams.