Kafka Consultant
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About the Role
About You
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution, or three years of progressive experience in lieu of education.
- At least 11 years of relevant Information Technology experience.
- Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship.
- At least 8 years of experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.
- At least 4 years of experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Flink, Spark Streaming) and integration technologies (e.g., REST, SOAP, MQ).
- Deep understanding of Kafka internals, architecture, and operational best practices.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Strong background in Java, Spring Boot, .Net, and microservices architecture with hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience in leading the design and implementation of enterprise-grade Kafka platforms using Confluent Kafka.
- Experience in defining architectural standards and best practices for streaming data pipelines.
- Experience in collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to align Kafka solutions with enterprise goals.
- Experience with deploying, configuring, and maintaining Kafka clusters in production environments.
- Experience in ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of Kafka infrastructure.
- Experience in integrating Kafka with other enterprise systems (e.g., databases, cloud services, microservices).
- Experience in ensuring data consistency, integrity, and quality across streaming pipelines.
- Experience in defining message schemas, data models, and serialization formats (e.g., Avro, Protobuf).
- Experience with implementing authentication, authorization, and encryption mechanisms.
- Experience in setting up monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) for Kafka performance and health.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
- Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
- 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
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