Hi,
Title: Infrastructure Architect
Location: Lower Manhattan, NY
Duration: 6+ Months
Requirements:
- Messaging expertise with extensive, well-rounded background in a diverse set of messaging middleware solutions (commercial, open source, in-house) with in-depth understanding of architectures of such solutions. Examples: Kafka, RabbitMQ, Tibco, IBM, Solace
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations
- Deep understanding of different messaging paradigms (pub/sub, queuing), as well as delivery models, quality-of-service, and fault-tolerance architectures
- Knowledge of messaging protocols and associated APIs
- Established track record with Kafka technology, with a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper, producers/consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
- Strong fundamentals in Kafka administration, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, KStreams, and Connector infrastructures, with the motivation to build efficient platforms
- Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing KStreams components. Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams clusters
- Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework, with experience using several connector types: HTTP REST proxy, JMS, File, SFTP, JDBC, Splunk, Salesforce, and how to support wire-format translations. Knowledge of connectors available from Confluent and the community would be a plus
- Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors using the framework
- Work in an agile environment, designing and developing API library/Interfaces for publishing/consuming & streaming data to and from the platform.
- Configuring clusters for strategic Multi Data Center deployments.
- Implement new open source solutions that have been developed around the platform, improving cluster architecture, improving monitoring capabilities, and developing and possibly open sourcing tooling will be a plus.At least 8+ years of total IT experience with 2+ years’ experience in a similar job function working on Kafka deployments.
- Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks and work as part of a small team and independently as required.
- Able to create technical presentations to convey architectural vision, while tailoring to the audience
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