What are the responsibilities and job description for the Confluent Kafka Platform Engineer position at Inabia Software & Consulting Inc.?
Job Title: Confluent Kafka Platform Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA
Job Mode: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite
Visa Restriction: Open to all visas except H1-T, OPT, CPT, F1, and STEM.
Type/Duration: Contract – 0 to 17 months, with potential extension
Mandatory Skills:
Qualifications:
Inabia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Location: Irvine, CA
Job Mode: Hybrid – 3 Days Onsite
Visa Restriction: Open to all visas except H1-T, OPT, CPT, F1, and STEM.
Type/Duration: Contract – 0 to 17 months, with potential extension
Mandatory Skills:
- Proficiency with the Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Confluent Kafka/Confluent Cloud Platform)
- Experience with KSQL DB and Schema Registry
- Expertise in Kafka Connectors
- 10 years of relevant experience
- Deep knowledge of the Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Confluent Kafka/Confluent Cloud Platform).
- Hands-on experience with KSQL DB.
- Strong understanding of Schema Registry and Kafka Connectors.
Qualifications:
- 3 years with Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Confluent Kafka/Confluent Cloud platform); hands-on experience with KSQL DB, Schema registry and Kafka connectors.
- Ability to lead design and implement Kafka based streaming and messaging solutions across on-prem and Confluent Cloud platform and provide technical direction.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka Brokers and understanding of underlying functionality.
- Hands-on experience with Schema Registry and understanding of underlying functionality and understanding of underlying implementation.
- Create guidelines, procedures, and best practices for Kafka administration, development teams, and establish standards and conventions for the use of Kafka.
- Good understanding of Kafka client (Producer and Consumer) functionality.
- Guide and support upgrade/maintenance of Confluent Kafka platform from current version to latest release.
- Support enhancements to confluent cloud clusters.
- Collaborate among development teams, product managers, operations teams, and architect groups to integrate Kafka into applications and data pipelines.
- Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and methodologies; able to learn and adapt to new developments in the Kafka ecosystem.
- Some weekend work to support Production Changes and major Incidents Escalations.
Inabia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
