Kafka Engineer – Senior

Kafka Engineer – Senior

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with Kafka or Confluent or Kubernetes operators
• Experience creating data partitioning strategies and monitoring topics for performance
• Experience deploying and upgrading Kafka clusters in high availability containerized environments
• Experience utilizing observability platforms, including Elastic and Datadog to configure monitoring for data pipelines to ensure high availability and throughput, low latency, and alerting
• Knowledge of stream processing pipelines and analytics
• Secret Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Help clients find answers in their data to impact important missions
• Build advanced technology solutions and implement Kafka engineering activities
• Deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful
• Work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for clients

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Apache NiFi, multi-cluster or containerized environment experience
• Experience with scripting in Bash or Python
• Experience deploying and maintaining applications, appliances or machines aligned to DoD or Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) and Security Requirements Guides (SRG)
• Experience writing playbooks and scripts for automation tools including Terraform, Ansible or Puppet for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC)
• Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts, including threats, vulnerabilities, security operations, encryption, boundary defense, auditing, authentication and supply chain risk management
• DoD8570 IAT II Compliance Certification, such as Security+, CCNA Security, GSEC