Kafka Architect
My client, a large consultancy, is in need of a Kafka Architect for a 12 month contract inside IR35 based in Leeds, offering 2 days per week remote but requiring 3 days per week on-site.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in application integration development, experience in Cloud Integration Services and Kafka, good experience managing Confluent/Apache Kafka platforms in Cloud and/or on premise environments, experience managing Kafka Cluster build, including Design, Infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery, build and support producer/consumer apps, Implement encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper, Broker/Client, Connect cluster/connectors, Schema Registry, REST API, Producers/Consumers, KSQL.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in undertaking Lifecycle Management across the Kafka on premise environments, Research and recommend innovative ways to maintain the environment and ensure automation is undertaken, Setting up monitoring tools such as SPLUNK, Prometheus, Grafana to provide metrics from various Kafka cluster components (eg., Broker, Zookeeper, Connect, REST Proxy, Mirror Maker, Schema Registry, KSQL), Undertake regular assessments of the platform health and stability, create improvement plans and ensure automation/life cycle management is undertaken.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Containerisation (Openshift/Kubernetes), SSL Certificate management including public key management, Knowledge of Network topologies and Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS), clustering and virtualisation technologies, Interaction with Oracle/PostgreSQL databases, Management of disaster recovery testing for the Middleware Services block application and supporting Product Grid block application testing, Architect, being able to attend Architecture forums and demonstrate pros/cons of different solutions, Strong Communications and ability to work with business area.