What are the responsibilities and job description for the Confluent Cloud Platform Engineer position at The Brixton Group?
Job Details
Job Title: Confluent Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Irvine, CA - Hybrid - 3 days at client location
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Roles & Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Also 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.
Must have skills:
- Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Confluent Kafka/Confluent Cloud platform).
- KSQL DB.
- Schema registry and Kafka connectors.
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