What are the responsibilities and job description for the Middleware Kafka Engineer - ONSITE - 13 Years experience needed - Backfill position at Indus River Technologies Inc.?
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*NOTE: ONSITE - MUST have's - Middleware - IBM MQ - DevOps - Kafka - Kubernetes - JVM
*NOTE: ONSITE - MUST have's - Middleware - IBM MQ - DevOps - Kafka - Kubernetes - JVM
*NOTE: ONSITE - MUST have's - Middleware - IBM MQ - DevOps - Kafka - Kubernetes - JVM
Middleware Kafka Engineer - HYBRID - 13 Years experience needed - Backfill
This position is for a Level3 support role with global responsibility for managing and providing support for these middleware products with focus on Kafka plant running on Kubernetes (MS Private Cloud) with on call coverage to handle production escalations.
Main job responsibilities include:
- Production Management for Kafka on Kubernetes and MQ plants
- Deep-diving into complex troubleshoots, implementing changes, and serving as an escalation point for the Level 2 teams.
- Creating and maintaining best practices / policies and ensuring that they are followed.
- Work with External vendors and internal Project Managers to develop the execution for changes.
- Participate in the weekly Review meetings and actively engage with various engineering teams to review the infrastructure.
- Actively participate in the weekly Change meetings to explain their changes and answer any questions from the change board.
- Incident and Problem management
- Built automation to replace manual tasks with tools.
- Built tools to enable self-service operations by application users and L1/2 staff to reduce the overhead involved in day to day operations.
Skills Required:
- Experience with Kafka
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Good knowledge of Linux OS
- Good Knowledge of JVM
- Experience with IBM MQ
- Strong team spirit and relationship management skills, customer focused
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks and high pressure situations for outage handling, management or resolution
- Willingness to take ownership and accountability to execute and deliver on goals; strong commitment to high quality standards.
Nice to have:
- Experience with Modern ObserveStack (PrometheGrafana/Loki)
- Experience with Ansible
- Strong understanding of ITIL
- Understanding of data services with past experiences in one or more supported technologies.
- Understanding of Data Caching products such as Redis
- Experience with IBM Websphere MQ 9
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