What are the responsibilities and job description for the Kafka Implementation Consultant position at Covetus?
W2 Contract role:
Role Description
• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux.
• The candidate will be working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent cloud, Schema Registry, KStreams, and technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes to develop and manage infrastructure-related code on AWS platform.
Responsibilities
• Support systems engineering lifecycle activities for Kafka platform, including requirements gathering, design, testing, implementation, operations, and documentation.
• Automating platform management processes through Ansible, Python or other scripting tools/languages .
• Troubleshooting incidents impacting the Kafka platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design scalable solutions that meet business needs.
• Develop documentation materials.
• Participate in on-call rotations to address critical issues and ensure the reliability of data engineering systems.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and reliability of Kafka in AWS environments.
Experience
• Ability to troubleshoot and diagnose complex issues (e.g. including internal and external SaaS/PaaS, troubleshooting network flows).
• Able to demonstrate experience supporting technical users and conduct requirements analysis
• Can work independently with minimal guidance & oversight.
• Experience with IT Service Management and familiarity with Incident & Problem management
• Highly skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work across teams and functions to influence design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.
• Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.
Required Technical Expertise
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kafka and its various components.
• Strong Knowledge in Kafka Connect, KSQL and KStreams.
• Implementation experience in designing and building secure Kafka/streaming/messaging platform at enterprise scale and integration with other data system in hybrid multi-cloud environment.
• Experience in working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry, and KStreams Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
• Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale.
• Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance.
• Background in both Systems and Software Engineering.
• Strong understanding and working knowledge, experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda , EKS and VPC. Working knowledge of networking - VPCs, Transit Gateways, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
• Experience in monitoring and visualizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
• Competent developing new solutions in one or more of high-level language Java, Python.
• Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
• Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment.
• 3 years of Python and Shell Scripting.
• 3 years of AWS DevOps experience.
• Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.
