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Akima, LLC is Hiring a Remote Kafka SME (Remote)

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: - 5 years of experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka. - 5 years of experience with data integrations. - Bachelors Degree. - Physical deployment of infrastructure across multiple environments. - Optimization and tuning. - Relational database replication. - Encryption in flight and at rest. - Data replication validation. - High availability relative to Kafka. - Disaster recovery relative to Kafka. - Standards and pattern development. - User guide development and training overviews for supporting teams. - Provide troubleshooting and best practices methodology for development teams. - Design monitoring solutions and baseline statistics reporting to support the implementation. - Ansible or Python scripting. - Linux/Red Hat operating system commands. - Experience with JIRA, Git repo, Bitbucket, and Confluence. - Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. - Active Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret. Desired Qualifications: Preferred: however, not required: - Experience where the relational data replication source is mainframe based (e.g. DB2). - Experience with Elastic Stack. - Experience with Agile software development (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban). - Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps and CI/CD implementation. - Experience with automation tools such as Ansible. - Experience with other database systems and data models. - Experience with software engineering. - Experience with Python, JSON, or Java. The duties and responsibilities listed in this job description generally cover the nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. This is not intended to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. Subject to the terms of an applicable collective bargaining agreement, the company management reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as may be necessary. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you have a physical and/or mental disability and are interested in applying for employment and need special accommodations to use our website to apply for a position please contact, Recruiting Services at job-assist@akima.com or 571-353-7053. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis. The dedicated email and telephonic options above are reserved only for individuals with disabilities needing accessibility assistance to apply to an open position using our website. Please do not use the dedicated email or phone number above to inquire on the status of your job application. In order for our company to stay compliant with government regulations, please apply on line. Please DO NOT email resumes or call in lieu of applying online unless you have a physical and/or mental disability and need assistance with the online application.

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