Kafka Administrator

Genesis10•Charlotte, NC

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Kafka Administrator for a contract position with a Global Financial Institution. This role is responsible for the operational support and administration of a large-scale Kafka infrastructure. The ideal candidate will handle monitoring, troubleshooting, change requests, builds, and incident management to ensure the stability and performance of the messaging platform.

Requirements

Ability to analyze the root cause and follow the ways to providing the permanent fix
Familiar in handling client calls and customer issues
Knowledge on complex clustered Environment
Good hands-on Production environment to handle issues
Experience resolving critical issues on the fly
Ability to support application teams around messaging functionalities
Excellent communication skills both written & spoken

Responsibilities

Perform operational activities which includes administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, change requests and builds
Provide Problem, Incident, Change and Request management support for the application
Triage, service restoral, facilitation and coordination of root cause identification and permanent fix resolution
Responsible to handle the Kafka infrastructure and break fix the issues occurred in Production and Non-Production
Responsible to handle Changes in the Kafka Infrastructure
Build new Kafka servers and configure
Manage Kafka patching and fix packs
Work on Kafka monitoring tools
Perform TLS upgrades and installation in prod and non-prod infrastructure

Benefits

Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
Behavioral Health Platform
Medical, Dental, Vision
Health Savings Account
Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
Voluntary Term Life Insurance
401K
Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)