Kafka Admin

Role: Kafka Cloud Solution Engineer
Location: Hopkins, Minnesota (Day 1 onsite)
Yrs. of experience: 6+ Yrs.
Mode of employment: Full-Time

Job Description:
* 5-6+ years of solid Kafka Admin experience in managing critical 24/7 applications
* Strong knowledge on Linux
* Strong knowledge on Cloud Services. Azure cloud experience is a plus.
* Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
* Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on any cloud is a plus.
* Experience in Kafka build pipelines using Ansible, Cloud formation templates (Terraform) , shells etc.
* Experience in Jenkins, GitHub
* Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.
* Experience in open source Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, Kafka Manager.
* High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing support
* Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts Has good knowledge of best practices
* Exposure to Kafka APIs
* Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
* Provide technical expertise and guidance to production support staff.
* Involvement with grouping/clustering and high-volume systems.
* Handle all Kafka environment builds, including design, capacity planning, cluster setup, performance tuning and ongoing monitoring.
* Manage large scale multi-nodes cluster environments residing on any cloud
* Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka cluster
* Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
* Proven track record of sound, effective decision making.
* Excellent listening and communication skills.
* Must be able to communicate technical information clearly, able to 'translate' between diverse groups of technical and non-technical individuals.

Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.

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