Senior Kafka Administrator - Whippany, United States - NR Consulting

    NR Consulting
    NR Consulting Whippany, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Job Title : Senior Kafka Administrator Work Location: Whippany, NJ (Hybrid-2 days) Position Type: Contract Description:
    • Experience with the Linux environments and Bash scripting.
    • Experience with Kafka operations and administration. The individual will be asked to lead the triage sessions with multiple tenants.
    • Must have ability to review client application configuration and architecture.
    • Provide onboarding support to prospective tenants on 1-O-1 setting
    • Participate and Lead Regular engagement forum to interact with tenants and answer any questions
    • Individual will be part of L3 support team and expected to handle support activities during weekend and off business hours.
    • Experience with monitoring tools: Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch and others
    • Experience in Configuration Management tools like Ansible, Chef.
    • Must have ability to query for patterns in log and dashboard querying(promQL)
    • Experience with developer tools: Git, Maven, Gradle
    • Must have experience in contributing to code repository to meet automation requirements (pull, push, merge, rebase, clone and other git essentials)
    • Familiar working in an Agile structure (Scrum or Kanban) with project management tools: Jira, BitBucket.
    • Ability to produce quality documentation and diagrams.
    • Regular activity will include creation/revision of Runbooks on Confluence Page
    Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
    • Kafka has to be Primary skill set.
    • Experience in Monitoring and tuning of Kafka stack.
    • Experience using open source Kafka stack and command line Kafka utilities
    • Ability to breakdown complex problems using appropriate design patterns and best practices demonstrating a strong knowledge foundation and a sound approach to problem-solving.
    • Ability to build automated pipelines that integrate and transport software through reliable, secure, and governed channels from conception to production.
    • Ability to build a suite of real-time monitoring and automation software that encompass resilient and self-healing platform operations.
    • Ability to conduct effective triage and remediation of production incidents with accompanying customer service and support for all clients of the platform.
    Linux Environments, Bash Scripting, Kafka Operations and Administration, Monitoring Tools, Configuration Management Tools, Git/ Maven/Gradle,