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Kafka Specialist (Contract)
Location: City of London Country: UK Rate: £750.00 - £1k per day
 

Kafka Specialist working with a Financial Services Company for an initial 6-month contract, this will be paying up to £1,000 per day (inside IR35). This is a Hybrid position, 2-3 days per week in the London office.

Job Summary

We are looking for a Kafka Specialist, with good experience with Confluent Kafka platform. This position will be responsible for building and maintaining high performant Confluent Kafka platform both on-prem (Linux) and Cloud (AWS).

Main Responsibilities

  • Maintain critical Confluent Kafka Platform - eg infrastructure upgrades, vulnerability fixes patches.
  • Build and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance Kafka cluster in both cloud and on-prem environment.
  • Develop and maintain Kafka connectors to integration with various data sources and sinks.
  • Optimize Kafka configurations to ensure maximum performance and reliability.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve Kafka-related issues, including cluster performance, data loss, and data consistency problems.
  • Work with DevOps teams to implement and manage Kafka deployment using Harness or other similar deployment tools.

Required Experience

  • In-Depth Experience with Apache Kafka and confluent platform.
  • In-Depth Experience with Kafka hosted on-prem - Linux.
  • In-Depth Experience with Kafka hosted off-prem - AWS cloud.
  • Experience with RHEL.
  • Experience with AWS Cloud Platform Core Components - EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, KMS, Cloudwatch, SQS, SNS, AWS Secret Manager.
  • Experience with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Hands on Experience with Unix Shell Scripting, Python, Docker, Jenkins, Kerberos, SSL/TLS. Active Directory.
  • Experience with Packer, Harness, Grafana Prometheus, PCI compliance knowledge is a plus.
  • Experience with resolving Vulnerabilities and securing AWS infrastructure is a plus.

Please apply should you meet the requirements.


Posted Date: 22 May 2024 Reference: JS-KSBA01 Employment Business: Adecco Contact: Bradley Andrews
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