Description
For our client we are looking for a Senior Kafka SME.
Skills required:
- Kafka Experience.
- Production experience with Kafka clusters is mandatory, preferred in a container based environment.
- DBA type knowledge required, both architectural & operational.
- Cloud Technologies experience.
- BIG DATA experience preferred
Job description:
Our client is looking for a consultant who has strong background in Kafka production. This is a great opportunity to develop your own professional skills with large scale production environment.
This assignment includes following:
- Building capability to deploy and operate several Kafka clusters (from hundreds to thousands)
- Deployment automation in container-based environment
- High level operational support needed, especially for performance tuning, performing upgrades, troubleshooting & identifying relevant metrics and thresholds for alerting.
Some other skills where some knowledge would be preferred:
- Relevant certifications like Confluent Certified Administrator for Kafka (CCAK) preferred
- GO programming
- Docker
- Mesos/Kubernetes
- Linux filesystems/volumes (XFS, LVM)
- Linux networking (iptables/ipvs/ebpf etc.)
- Prometheus/Grafana
- OpenStack
- Ansible
- Any other similar distributed systems which are storing data (Cassandra, ElasticSearch...)