*We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role*

*Onsite 4 days a week*

A prestigious company is looking for a Kafka Engineering Architect. This architect will focus on designing event streaming and Kafka enterprise platforms. This person will need experience with cloud, software development, and BI analytics.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in Architecting the Event Streaming platforms, designing and automating the daily operations of the Event Streaming Environments, as well as architecting additional tools for integrating with the Event Streaming environment.
• Work with developers on integrating with the Event Streaming platform, assisting in the design, scale, and tooling of the application. The architect role should always be able to assist the operations and development staff with questions and support of the environments, as the next level of escalation. The Event Streaming Services Architect will work as part of an agile team, continuously striving to automate, improve overall platform availability and remove extraneous processes from the onboarding process to the platform.
• Support the existing Event Streaming (Kafka) platforms. Assists in installation of new Event Streaming Services (Kafka) platforms. Builds best practices and ensures adoption of secure development and automation of development and deployment.
• Coordinate with platform architect (team) to implement changes to platform configuration and components And report on the status and operability of existing Event Streaming Services (Kafka) platforms.
• Certify tools for code management, automated testing, platform terraforming and release management And ensure compliance is built in to account for Regulatory & internal policies

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 5 years of work experience in Systems administration
• 2 years operating in Kafka environments
• 2 years of work experience in Software development, Cloud Security, Cloud Development and data management.
• Advanced knowledge of BI/analytics capabilities, techniques, and best practices
• Advanced Expertise in Security Frameworks and Security Services on Premises and in the Cloud
• Experience working with Message Systems such as Kafka and/or streaming engines like Kinesis/EventHub/Dataflow.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting production cloud environments, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and private cloud environments.

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education.

• Experience with Kafka and other Apache stack components is ideal.
• Knowledge of Kafka Configurations, Management and Kafka testing.
• Experience with Cloudera Kafka preferred