Kafka Engineer

Job Description

Job Type: Fulltime

Location: Dallas TX (Onsite)

Experience: 6+years

• Looking for Developer with Confluent Kafka and System Integration experience to design, configure, build, and maintain a Multi-Platform Shared Enterprise Event Messaging Ecosystem on premise and in the public cloud.
• You will work with new technology, build new solutions, and help our team and business partners, view technology as a solution to advance our consumer engagement and best in class experience.
• Lead on Kafka Capacity planning, installation, administration/Platform management, performance optimization of Kafka partitioning and Kafka brokers.
• Work on Kafka Cluster, Partitions, Security, Disaster recovery, Data pipeline, Data replication.
• Work on building producer applications for Kafka and Configuration in Confluent Kafka.
• Work in tuning Kafka partitioning. Performance optimization with Kafka brokers.
• Work on configuring Self-Managed Kafka connectors
• Work on Deploying confluent Kafka cluster which includes Installation, Configuration, Deployment, Securing, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
• Work on administrating confluent Kafka
• Work on optimization of Kafka cluster using performance tuning at different levels (Producer, broker, and consumer).
• Work on monitoring Kafka Services, Topics and Partitions all are up and running
• Work on setting up monitoring alerts for multiple metrics
• Design, support and deploy mechanisms to enhance, refine, and deliver the architecture vision
• Analyze current information technology environments to identify and assess critical capabilities and recommend solutions
• Provide research and development activities for architecture
• Collaborate with Project Managers and technical leads to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan, and serve as a lead as required. Provide lab and vendor support
• Provide guidance for enterprise-wide technology to junior staff
• Develop frameworks, standards & reference material for architecture and associated products
• Develop & maintain common services, repositories & utility components for the enterprise
• Provide data, application & technology deliverables on a program & project level basis including risk & opportunity assessment, modeling and design related products and services
• Effectively communicate the architecture to all levels of the organization
• Adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, principals, standards, policies and procedures.