Kafka Admin

Role Kafka Admin

Location Austin TX (Day 1 onsite)

Job description for Kafka SRE:

Carry out SRE duties for Kafka Streaming Platform.

Have thorough understanding on the Kafka architecture along with the concepts of Producer Consumer topics partitions etc.

Keep an eye on the platforms and adhere to runbooks/SOPs to manage platform and application problems.

Familiarize yourself with the cluster maintenance processes and implement changes as per the documented installation and validation plans.

Showcase robust troubleshooting and debugging skills aiming to pinpoint and rectify the issue while also offering advice on how to prevent such problems in the future.

Conduct thorough root cause analysis of major production incidents document for future reference and put in place proactive measures to enhance system reliability.

Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools to lessen manual work decrease the chance of human errors and boost system reliability.

Technical Skills required:

At least 23 years of experience for a junior level role and 5 for midlevel/senior level working as a Site reliability engineer for Kafka Platform.

Deep level Knowledge on core Kafka components like producers consumers topics partitions etc.

Troubleshooting both Kafka platform service application problems and identifying the root cause.

Writing Ansible playbooks and automate manual tasks using Ansible shell scripting and python.

Should be familiar with Unix/Linux system internals networking and distributed systems.