Location: WFH – Toronto
Contract Duration: 3 Month Contract
Story Behind the Need
• Project Summary : The main function of a Kafka Administrator is to Set up, maintain, operate and troubleshoot KAFKA clusters – Brokers, ZooKeepers, Connect, KSQL, Schema Registry.
Scope and Deliverables:
– Maintain & Operate Real time data platforms using apache KAFKA
– Set up, maintain, operate and troubleshoot KAFKA clusters
– Perform upgrades and patching
– KAFKA Monitoring and alerting using C3, Dynatrace and Splunk
– Working knowledge of Confluent Cloud – Kafka in Azure and/or GCP
– Operate applications in GCP and Azure
– Operate build and deploy pipelines for CI/CD
– Operate KAFKA Brokers, Zookeeps, Connect, SMTs, KStreams, KSQLDB, Schema Registry, KAFKA producers and consumers
– Operate Microservices using Java Spring Boot in GCP and Azure
– Expertise in Unix Shell, Python and Ansible scripting
– Participate and Support Implementation to Production
– Provide Post Implementation Support
– Hands on Docker and containerization
Job Responsibilities:
– Analyze highly complex business requirements; generate technical specifications to design or redesign complex software components and applications
– Act as an expert technical resource for modeling, simulation and analysis efforts
– Leverage industry best practices to design, test, implement and support a solution
– Assure quality security and compliance requirements are met for supported area
– Be flexible and thrive in an evolving environment
– Adapt to change quickly and adjust work accordingly in a positive manner
Qualifications:
1. At least 1-2 years of prior KAFKA Admin experience
2. At least 3 years working on Cloud technologies
3. Expertise in Ansible scripting – can also have Unix Shell, Python
4. At least 1 year of hands on Docker and containerization experience
Nice to have:
1. Prior Banking FI experience
2. Working knowledge of Confluent Cloud – Kafka in Azure and/or GCP
Education
Qualifications: Associate's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required