Kafka Engineer

Kafka Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX
Salary Range: $105,000 - $120,000 per year
Employment Type: Full-Time

Application Deadline: 07-Feb-2025

Job Description:
We are seeking a Kafka Engineer with 6–10 years of experience to design, configure, build, and maintain a Multi-Platform Shared Enterprise Event Messaging Ecosystem on-premise and in the public cloud. You will work with cutting-edge technology to build new solutions and contribute to delivering a best-in-class consumer experience.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Kafka capacity planning, installation, administration/platform management, and performance optimization of Kafka partitioning and Kafka brokers.
• Manage Kafka clusters, partitions, security, disaster recovery, data pipelines, and data replication.
• Build producer applications for Kafka and configure them in Confluent Kafka.
• Tune Kafka partitioning and optimize performance with Kafka brokers.
• Configure self-managed Kafka connectors.
• Deploy Confluent Kafka clusters, including installation, configuration, deployment, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Administer Confluent Kafka and optimize clusters using performance tuning at different levels (producer, broker, consumer).
• Monitor Kafka services, topics, and partitions to ensure optimal functionality.
• Set up monitoring alerts for multiple metrics.
• Design, support, and deploy mechanisms to enhance, refine, and deliver architecture vision.
• Analyze current IT environments to identify and assess critical capabilities and recommend solutions.
• Provide research and development activities for architecture.
• Collaborate with project managers and technical leads to estimate provisions, develop implementation plans, and provide leadership as required.
• Provide lab and vendor support.
• Mentor junior staff by offering enterprise-wide technology guidance.
• Develop frameworks, standards, and reference materials for architecture and associated products.
• Maintain common services, repositories, and utility components for the enterprise.
• Deliver program and project-level data, application, and technology deliverables, including risk/opportunity assessments, modeling, and design-related services.
• Effectively communicate architecture to all organizational levels.
• Adhere to enterprise architecture strategies, principles, standards, policies, and procedures.

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Expertise in Kafka, Confluent Kafka, and system integration.
• Strong understanding of Kafka cluster management, partitioning, security, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience with cloud-based Kafka solutions and performance tuning.
• Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills.

Location: Dallas, TX

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