Kafka Senior Engineer - Officer

Kafka Senior Engineer Who we are looking for As a Senior Middleware Platform Engineer, you will be working in a fast paced environment in a team of highly skilled engineers responsible for leading platform engineering, design, and implementation of next generation messaging infrastructure. You will also be expected to assist and act as final level of support for the production services supported by the team. What you will be responsible for As Kafka Senior Engineer you will: •    Design, Engineer, and Evangelize Kafka Messaging across the enterprise •    Lead in the design and engineering of our first Kafka Cluster on a Public Cloud (Azure, AWS, other) using Ansible, Terraform, Python •    Lead and assist in providing direction for Junior Engineers •    Work with Enterprise Architecture team in identifying and implementing use cases best suited for Kafka •    Write code to automate tasks ( request processing, product installations, health checks, proactive monitoring, alerting, reporting, predictive analytics ) •    Write Kafka producer code and Kafka consumer code within consumer groups to test the Kafka client APIs, develop Kafka application best practices, and help safely onboard Kafka applications to our Kafka platforms (across programming languages/platforms) •    Configure and test pre-built Kafka Connectors for integrating Kakfa with other systems •    Design, code, and test new Kafka Connectors where needed for integrating Kakfa with other systems •    Perform optimization and tuning of Kafka •    Design monitoring solutions for the platform and baseline statistics reporting •    Work on creating best practices, standards, Integration patterns and on-boarding process automation •    Ability to work with application development teams to understand usage pattern and provide solutions •    Lead in collaborating with other infrastructure teams to achieve high resiliency and scalability of our Kafka Messaging platforms •    Provide technical expertise in scoping end to end business requirements and assist in reflecting them in implementation for different Kafka connectors •    Conduct technical reviews of integration implementation for all SDLC phases to assess the quality of integration solutions built on Kafka •    Strive to provide highly resilient Kafka Messaging systems using the latest high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) technology solution What we value These skills will help you succeed in this role •    Love of writing code/programming •    Solid coding ability to write robust, fault tolerant, well tested code.  Any scripting/programming language is fine but with willingness to learn Python, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Shell.  Experience with source code control system •    Experience working on Red Hat Linux •    Deep level of understanding of Kafka Messaging or another Messaging technology •    Experience with finding root cause for problems with Kafka or Applications using Kafka (or another Messaging technology)