First Citizens BankRemote
Senior Kafka Engineer
United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Kafka ArchitectureDistributed SystemsData StreamingMessaging SystemsConfluent Kafka ConnectKafka StreamsGrafanaPrometheusConfluent Control CenterSSLSASLSchema RegistryTechnical GuidanceConsultationKafkaPerformance Optimization
About this role
First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer to provide technical guidance on complex strategic projects. The role involves designing, developing, and maintaining data streaming pipelines and ensuring high availability of Kafka clusters.
Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Management – Design and deploy Kafka clusters on premise to ensure scalability and high availability. Cluster management through capacity planning, monitoring and alerting
- Pipeline Development – Develop and Maintain real-time, stream data pipes using Kafka connect, schema registry, streams, ksqldb
- Performance Optimization - Monitor, tune and optimize brokers and topic configurations for throughput and low latency
- Technical Expert - Maintains a strong knowledge of technology trends and impact on the Bank's infrastructure to provide relevant consultative guidance. Trains and mentor peers on new technologies
- Consultation - Provides technical advice and direction to associates, management, and developmental project teams. Utilizes expertise to consult and develop software to solve complex technical problems
- Business Strategy - Acts as a trusted advisor on strategies that align developmental projects with long-term business needs and technological direction. Assists management in implementing initiatives or strategies across the division
- Troubleshooting – Diagnose and work of remediations for issues related to infrastructure, consumer lags and message delivery
- Security and Governance – Secure Kafka cluster via SSL and SASL, Manage data contracts using schema registry
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance
- Strong understanding of Kafka architecture – topics, partitions, brokers, producers, consumers, connectors
- Knowledge of distributed systems, data streaming and messaging systems
- Experience with Confluent Kafka Connect, streams
- Monitoring tools like, Grafana, Prometheus, Confluent Control Center
- Ability to be on call for support on a rotating basis (as needed)
- Preferred Area of Study: Computer Science, Information Systems
- Preferred Area of Experience: Information Technology, Application Development