Kafka SME

Mastech Digital Inc. is a (certified) Minority owned business certified by NMSDC. Public traded firm under MHH at NYSE, Established in 1986. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA our operations are spread across 11 Global Recruiting & Sales offices across US.

Role: Kafka SME

Location: Pittsburgh PA

Duration: Full-Time

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Big Data solutions such as Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch and Solr is a plus.
• Working knowledge and experience of Bitbucket, Git or Gitflow;
• Continuous integration and automated testing.
• Knowledge of Kafka Schemas and use of the Schema Registry.
• Strong fundamentals in Kafka client configuration and troubleshooting.
• Development of RESTful Services employing Spring and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Building Cloud Native applications on Google Cloud platform with a focus and understanding of Google Cloud Data Products is desired.
• Best practices to optimize the Kafka ecosystem based on use-case and workload.
• Knowledge of Kafka clustering, and its fault-tolerance model supporting High Availability.
• Strong familiarity of wire formats such as XML, JSON, Avro, Protobuf, Thrift, CSV, etc. along with serialization/deserialization options.