Title: KAFKA Administrator

Location: Chicago, IL

Terms: Contract

Job Details:

8 to 10+ yrs of well-versed experience as Kafka Administrator.
Hands-on experience in creating Kafka Topics/brokers & setup Zookeeper instances.
Hands-on experience on Python as a scripting language.
Know how to setup - scheduler as well as Real-time data ingestion (from source to sink) using Kafka connectors (supporting CRUD operations).
Well-versed with streaming On-Premises Data for Cloud Analytics using Confluent Kafka.
Setup Confluent Schema Registry & optimization in Kafka deployments (viz. Throughput, Latency, durability & availability).
Error handling & retry/replay of messages if upstream/downstream system fails (error topic/queue concept).
Well-versed in deploying Kafka nodes as POD or Docker container on AKS/OpenShift managed Kubernetes platform(s).
Kafka monitoring dashboard setup using tools like Grafana/Prometheus.

KAFKA Administrator

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