Kafka Administrator at Centene Corporation | Torre

Kafka Administrator

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Full-time

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Compensation
USD40 - 45/hour
Negotiable
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Remote (for USA residents)
Posted 25 days ago

Responsibilities


Position: Kafka Admin. Location: St. Louis, MO (Remote). Client: Centene. Job Overview: - A Kafka Administrator manages Kafka cluster environments, which includes configuring, deploying, monitoring, managing, and supporting the clusters. - Confluent Kafka Administration tools are part of the Confluent Platform ecosystem, which helps organizations build and manage event streaming applications using Kafka. - These tools can simplify cluster management, improve security, monitor performance, and support efficient data movement. Primary Skillset: - Kafka admin. - Confluent Kafka. - Terraform. - Git. - Kubernetes. - AWS cloud. Secondary Skillset: - Unix. - Shell scripts. Key Roles and Responsibilities: - Design, deploy, and maintain Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters. - Monitor Kafka cluster performance, usage, and overall health. - Configure and fine-tune Kafka parameters to optimize performance. - Deploy resources using Terraform in Confluent Cloud. - Implement security measures to protect Kafka clusters. - Develop automation scripts for routine tasks and monitoring. - Collaborate with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve Kafka-related issues. - Perform capacity planning and expansion of Kafka clusters. - Ensure Kafka clusters are highly available and fault tolerant. - Implement best practices for Kafka cluster management and operations. - Stay updated with the latest Kafka features, enhancements, and best practices. Qualifications: - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). Additional Qualities: - Apache Kafka Administration. - Confluent Cloud/Platform Administration. - Event Driven Architecture. - Event Streaming (Kafka preferred). - NoSQL DB (MongoDB preferred). - DevOps. - CI/CD. Top 3 Must-Have Hard Skills: - Kafka Administration. - AWS Experience. - Event Driven Architecture. - Monitoring/Alerting and Logging tools (preferably Dynatrace and Splunk). - DevOps/CI/CD. - Cloud Engineering.
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