Kirtana consulting is looking for Kafka engineer role for 6 months rolling contract in London.

Job description:

Job Title: Kafta Engineer

Experience in years: 10+ years

Industry: Banking

Must Have Skills:

This specific role will be building and deploying Kafka clusters on both onPrem and Public cloud Kubernetes environments. Relevant experience > 10 years.

Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest Proxy and Kafka Control center.

Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.

Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.

Detailed Job Description

Work alongside product owners, technical leads and customers to strategize 3-5-year plans for streaming software.

Produce and maintain product and platform architecture in line with the central architecture governance functions.

Implement patterns that provide customers with robust deployment patterns meeting HSBC service levels tiers.

Ensure that platform and product architectures remain cost effective.

Standing up and administer On-Prem clusters.

Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest Proxy and Kafka Control center.

Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.

Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.

Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.

Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage.

Participate in work planning and estimation to ensure optimum performance, high availability, and stability of solutions.

Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices. Create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.

Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab.

Setting up security on Kafka, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues.

Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning