Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible
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Opportunity:
TAYS is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible to join our dynamic team!
Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible
Developer contributes to various projects within a federal agency. This role is based in Woodlawn, MD, and requires a qualified candidate with robust analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, coupled with keen attention to detail.
The Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible
must be local to the DMV area. Must be on-site five days a week in Woodlawn, MD.
Key Required Skills:
Kafka Architecture, Ansible Automation, RHEL/Linux Administration, Scripting (Bash, Shell, Python), Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus).
Position Description:
- Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:
- Data Streaming, Event Driven Architecture, Event Processing Frameworks
- DevOps (Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, SonarQube)
- Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform / CloudFormation, Scripting)
- Administer Kafka including automating, installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configuring on Linux.
- Provide expertise in one or more of these areas: Kafka administration, event-driven architecture, automation, application integration, monitoring and alerting, security, business process management/business rules processing, CI/CD pipeline and containerization, or data ingestion/data modeling.
- Investigate, repair, and actively ensure business continuity regardless of impacted component: Kafka Platform, business logic, middleware, networking, CI/CD pipeline, or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
- Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
- All other duties as assigned or directed
Skills Requirements:
FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS
(Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
- Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
- 8+ years of combined experience with Site Reliability Engineering, providing DevOps support, and/or RHEL administration for mission-critical platforms, ideally Kafka.
- 4+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK)
- 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
*** Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.
FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE
(Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
- Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms
- Solid experience using version control software such as Git/Bitbucket including peer reviewing Ansible playbooks
- Hands-on experience administrating Kafka platform (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK) via Ansible playbooks or other automation.
- Understanding of Kafka architecture, including partition strategy, replication, transactions, tiered storage, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Bash, Shell, or Python
- Solid foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration
- Basic networking skills
- Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents
- Experience with integrating/maintaining various 3rd party tools like ZooKeeper, Flink, Pinot, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers
- Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.
HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD
(Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
- Preferred Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
- Practical experience with event-driven applications and at least one event processing framework, such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or ksqlDB.
- Understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and experience applying DDD patterns in software development.
- Experience working with Kafka connectors and/or supporting operation of the Kafka Connect API
- Experience with Avro / JSON data serialization and schema governance with Confluent Schema Registry.
- Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud providers; AWS cloud certifications.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation / Terraform, Scripting)
- Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB), SQL, or/and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, or Spring JPA)
- Knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA)
Education:
- Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
Why TAYS is the Perfect Place for You
:
- Flexibility: Enjoy work-life harmony with our flexible working options.
- Remote Work: While our heart is in Baltimore, most of our roles support remote work.
- Benefits: Competitive packages, including tuition reimbursement.
- Leisure: Generous PTO, including 11 federal holidays and 2 floating holidays.
- Team Events: Quarterly gatherings for team bonding or community service.
- Military Friendly: We value the dedication and discipline of veterans and service members and urge them to apply.
Commitment to Diversity:
TAYS Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, veteran status, age, disability, or any other protected class.
100000.00 To 110000.00 (USD) Annually
