Kafka/Linux Admin

Job : Kafka/Linux Admin
Location : Las Vegas, NV Onsite

REQUIRED
•10 years of Solid Unix/Linux Administration
•2 Years MSK (Kafka in Cloud)
•5 Years Kafka
•Strong Knowledge of Kafka and what is it used for
•Experience as Linux (RHEL) /Unix administrator is REQUIRED.
Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters hosted on ROSA in AWS and on-prem K8 Open Shift platform.
Ability to maintain a positive attitude while working with high demands and short deadlines that leads to working after hours.
Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

PREFERRED
•Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, consumer/producer access management (ACL)
•Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.
•Experience in implementing security & authorization (permission based) on Kafka cluster.
•Aid System Administrators with setting up Kafka platform in provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
•Experience in open source and confluence Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control center.
•Experience in Kafka Mirror Maker or Confluent Replicator
•Knowledge of Kafka API (development experience is a plus)
•Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.
•Experience with Oracle Streams and/or another real-time streaming solution is a plus.
•Experience in setting up Prometheus/Grafana or ELK monitoring tools is a plus.
•Experience in PostgreSQL, SQL Server, No-SQL (Couchbase), Oracle, and AWS Cloud is a plus.
•Understanding of or experience supporting .NET / Java application.
•Understanding of or experience with Programming languages like Python, PowerShell, etc is plus.
•Experience in setting standards to automate deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, Chef or Jenkins

NICE TO HAVE
•Expert Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.
•Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable.
•Demonstrate a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.
•Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support
•Establish best practice standards for configuring Source and Sink connectors.
•Ability to synthesize large amounts of complex data into meaningful conclusions and present recommendations.