***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***
***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***
A prestigious company is looking for a Kafka Administrator/SME with 10+ years of Kafka administration, IaC, and cloud/automation.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and manage highly available and scalable Kafka clusters.
- Monitor Kafka performance, troubleshoot issues and optimize configurations.
- Develop and maintain IaC using Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration Management.
- Create and maintain reusable IaC modules.
- Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure solutions on AWS and Azure.
- Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling and management using cloud-native tools and services.
- Deploy and Manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Rancher
- Troubleshoot container-related issues and optimize container performance.
- Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins.
- Automated the build, test and deployment of middleware components.
- Integrate IaC and container technologies into CI/CD pipelines.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 10+ years of experience in infrastructure middleware administration.
- In-depth expertise in Kafka administration, including cluster management, performance tuning, and security.
- Strong proficiency in IaC tools, specifically Ansible, Terraform and bash scripting.
- Extensive experience with cloud automation and provisioning on AWS and Azure.
- Proficiency in CI/CD tools, including GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins.
- Strong scripting skills in languages like Python and Bash.
- Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Splunk OTEL, Prometheus and Grafana.
- Kafka, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Kubernetes, Rancher, GitHub, Artifactory, Harness, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, IaC, Automated Cloud Provisioning
