Technical Engineer - Kafka

We are looking for a Technical Engineer
As a Technical engineer, you will be responsible for assisting with the design, architecture, implementation (from development to production), and on-going support of Kafka.
You will be working within the department IT Continuity & Security Services – Monitoring Services. This department focusses on delivering monitoring services to the different domains of the bank. The team (3 people at the moment) where you will be working is part of this department.

Required

• 5+ years of experience as the Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

• 3 years of professional experience in Kafka Admin.

• Ansible knowledge

Your experience and what you bring to the client

• Standing up and administering on premise Kafka platform.

• Capacity planning and implementation of new/upgraded hardware and software releases as well as for storage infrastructure.

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

• Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions

• Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the Kafka environment.

• Creation of key performance metrics, measuring the utilisation, performance and overall health of the cluster.

• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system administration tasks.

• Ability to closely calibrate with product managers and engineers.

• Provide guidance in the creation and modification of standards and procedures

• Demonstrated a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.

• Documentation of work and plans.

Other qualifications

• Design, build, assemble, and configure application or technical architecture components using business requirements.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with good communication and documentation skills (Dutch and English)

• Hands-on experience with Kafka clusters

• Experience in Kafka build pipelines using Ansible, Cloud formation templates, shells etc.

• Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts. Has good knowledge of best practices

• Knowledge of best practices related to security, performance, and disaster recovery.

if you are interested please send your resume, rate and your availability.