Senior Kafka Engineer (Flink) Contract

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and manage Apache Kafka environments.

• Support real time data streaming and event driven applications.

• Configure and manage Kafka topics, partitions, replication, consumer groups, producers, and consumers.

• Monitor Kafka cluster performance, availability, capacity, and overall platform health.

• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to Kafka, messaging, connectivity, and performance.

• Deploy and manage Kafka related applications and services on Kubernetes.

• Work with development, infrastructure, DevOps, and application teams to onboard and support applications using Kafka.

• Implement high availability, scalability, security, and disaster recovery practices.

• Automate platform deployment, configuration, monitoring, and operational processes.

• Participate in architecture discussions and recommend improvements to the real time streaming platform.

• Provide technical guidance and support to junior engineers and other technology teams.

Key Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of overall IT experience.

• At least 2 to 3 years of strong hands on experience with Apache Kafka.

• Strong practical experience with Kubernetes.

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or similar relevant education background required.

• Experience supporting real time or event driven applications in a production environment.

• Good understanding of Kafka architecture, including: Brokers Topics and partitions Replication Consumer groups Producers and consumers High availability and fault tolerance

• Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems.

• Familiarity with Linux and scripting or automation.

• Experience with CI/CD, Docker, and DevOps practices would be advantageous.

• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP would be an advantage.

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