Job description

• **Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote*** • **We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role*** A prestigious company is looking for a Kafka Administrator/SME with 10+ years of Kafka administration, IaC, and cloud/automation. Responsibilities: • Design, implement and manage highly available and scalable Kafka clusters. • Monitor Kafka performance, troubleshoot issues and optimize configurations. • Develop and maintain IaC using Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and configuration Management. • Create and maintain reusable IaC modules. • Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure solutions on AWS and Azure. • Automate cloud resource provisioning, scaling and management using cloud-native tools and services. • Deploy and Manage containerized applications using Kubernetes and Rancher • Troubleshoot container-related issues and optimize container performance. • Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins. • Automated the build, test and deployment of middleware components. • Integrate IaC and container technologies into CI/CD pipelines. Qualifications: • Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience) • 10+ years of experience in infrastructure middleware administration. • In-depth expertise in Kafka administration, including cluster management, performance tuning, and security. • Strong proficiency in IaC tools, specifically Ansible, Terraform and bash scripting. • Extensive experience with cloud automation and provisioning on AWS and Azure. • Proficiency in CI/CD tools, including GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins. • Strong scripting skills in languages like Python and Bash. • Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Splunk OTEL, Prometheus and Grafana. • Kafka, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Kubernetes, Rancher, GitHub, Artifactory, Harness, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, IaC, Automated Cloud Provisioning

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