Sr. Sys Prog Analyst - Kafka Admin

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Job Description:

Technical Skills:

· Administration of Confluent Kafka Platform on Prem and in the Cloud

· Knowledge of Confluent Kafka operations

· Administration of Topics, Partitions, Consumer groups and kSQL queries to maintain optimal performance.

· Knowledge of Kafka ecosystem including Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper/kRaft, kSQL, Connectors, Schema Registry, Control Center, and platform interoperability.

· Knowledge of Kafka Cluster Linking and replication

· Experience with administering Multi Regional Confluent Clusters

· System Performance: Knowledge of performance tuning of messaging systems to meet application requirements.

· Performance Tools: Prometheus and Grafana metrics for Kafka implementations

· Development Tools/Languages: Familiarity with tools like CP-Ansible, Java, and shell scripting.

· Operating Systems: RedHat Linux

Soft Skills:

· Communication: Ability to articulate complex technical scenarios in a straightforward manner to stakeholders at different levels.

· Critical Thinking: Evaluation of design decisions, trade-offs, and potential future challenges.

· Attention to Detail: Especially crucial for analyzing system design documentation, error messages, and complex message flows.

· Teamwork: Ability to collaborate with architects, developers, system administrators, and other roles involved in system administration and implementation

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