Role: Kafka Admin
Client: Cognizant / BCBS
Location: Remote
Required Skills: Technical Skills: Kafka, Kafka Connect Domain Skills: Payer
Job Summary:
- Standing up and administer Kafka cluster. Strong experience with Confluent Kafka.
- Expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka – connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy, Replicator. Both Confluent and Apache Kafka.
- Solid understanding of Kafka architecture, how to save Kafka space. Working knowledge of Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, Linux/Unix systems. Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Hands on commands usage of Kafka and all components.
- Roles & Responsibilities: Standing up and administer Kafka cluster. Strong experience with Confluent Kafka.
- Expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy, Replicator. Both Confluent and Apache Kafka.
- Solid understanding of Kafka architecture, how to save Kafka space. Working knowledge of Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, Linux/Unix systems. Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Hands on commands usage of Kafka and all components. Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
- Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine-tuning alerts on Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk. Setting up security on Kafka (Setting different security mechanism in Kafka). Manage Kafka users and topics.
- Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security related issues. Good skills in Database Design, Data Integration.
- Good knowledge of big data ecosystem to design and develop capabilities to deliver solutions using CI/CD pipelines