Kafka Architect

Kafka Architect Mandatory Skills - DevOps, Kafka, Splunk, Ansible, Grafanna Responsibilities Consult with inquiring teams on how to leverage Kafka within their pipelines Architect, Build and Support existing and new Kafka clusters via IaC Partner with Splunk teams to route traffic through Kafka by utilizing open-source agents and collectors deployed via Chef Remediate any health issues within Kafka Automate (where possible) any operational processes on the team Create new and/or update monitoring dashboards and alerts as needed Manage a continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline Perform PoC's on new components to expand/enhance team's Kafka offerings Skills & Qualifications 2+ years of experience with Kafka clustering & administration 2+ years of experience building, deploying, and supporting multiple Kafka clusters using IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) best practices Experience developing automated processes within and around Kafka to help supplement the service Experience working with multiple teams to build and architect data pipeline solutions where Kafka will be involved. Experience with Linux/Unix and system management IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) experience with Virtual/Physical Servers using Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc. Understanding of Git workflows, continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) conceptsStrong verbal and written communication skills Strong technical acumen Strong analytical skills Experience working in Agile/Lean methodologies Preferred Qualifications Knowledge and experience with Splunk, Elastic, Kibana and Grafana Knowledge and experience with log collection agents such as Open-Telemetry, Fluent Bit, FluentD, Beats and LogStash. Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes / Docker Knowledge and experience with Kafka-Connect Knowledge and experience with AWS or Azure Knowledge and experience with Streaming Analytics #J-18808-Ljbffr