Kafka Engineer/Consultant

Job title: Kafka Engineer/Consultant

Company: Randstad


Job description: Are you an experienced Software Engineer in search of your next contract opportunity? Our high-profile client is seeking to hire a Kafka Engineer to join their talented team on a 6-month contract with a strong probability of extension. Apply for this amazing opportunity if this sounds like a good fit for you!Advantages
What’s in it for you!
As a consultant with our client, you’ll receive:
– Highly competitive market hourly rates
– A 6 month contract with a strong probability of extension
– Remote interview processResponsibilities

• Drive the creation of Kafka platform roadmap.
• Design, build, and deploy highly scalable, available, secure Kafka Platform and components.
• Define, maintain, and prompt Kafka platform and development standards and best practices.
• As the highest level of technical escalation point, response to technical issues in professional way and timely manner.
• Produce the architecture design solution with application/platform engineer in mind, making adoption easy.
• Continuously drive improves in areas like performance, security, automation, quality, monitoring, and reliability of platforms
• Identify and anticipate top Kafka Platform architecture solutions and features to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.
• Estimate/optimize cloud cost.
• Extensive, well-rounded background in a diverse set of messaging middleware solutions with in-depth understanding of architectures of such solutions. Examples: Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM, OSB

• 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
• Applied experience with micro-service architecture and the reactive model
• Strong background in integration patterns
• 3+ track record with Kafka technology, with hands-on production experience.
• Deep understanding of the Kafka architecture along with interplay of architecture 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, Connector infrastructures with the motivation to build efficient platforms.
• Hands-on experience as a developer who has used Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, alone with expertise in implementing KStreams components.
• Lean Agile mentality
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their actions
• Ability to create clearly defined technical documentation (ex: Technical requirements, design documentation, Architectural review materials, technology guidelines and best practices)

Qualifications
3+ years of experience working with the Kafka platform
Advanced expertise with Confluent platform management, AWS EK8s infrastructure management, Hashi corp vault, Automation, and Developer tools for Kafka
Proficient in developing scripts, preferably using python or Java to build serverless applications
Hands-on experience with building automation and applications such as account vending machine and security-oriented automation such as Hashi corp KeyVault
Extensive experience with Confluent platform, Kafka topic RBAC, ACL, SSO, resiliency, and scalability, Azure AD + Conditional Access, implementing Kafka topic and schema registry RBAC and Azure PIM + JIT.
Expert level in DevSecOps tools and processes to include, but not limited to Git, JFrog Artifactory, Jenkins and HashiCorp Products.
Working experience in Flink is a PlusSummary
If you are a Kafka Engineer and the prospect of joining a dedicated team intrigues you, then this role with our high-profile client could be the perfect opportunity for you.Apply below or reach out to your Randstad representative for more information.Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada’s workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.

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Location: Vancouver, BC

Job date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 05:02:36 GMT

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