Strategic Staffing Solutions is hiring for a Confluent/Kafka Support Consultant.
This is a Contract Opportunity with our company that MUST be worked on a W2 ONLY, NO visa sponsorship or C2C eligibility for this position. The details are below.
Duration: 12 months
Location: Raleigh, NC (With some remote)
Job Description
- Provide administration support for existing Kafka platform by handling incidents, troubleshooting, and monitoring the health of the platform.
- Ability to understand complex software architecture and effectively communicate with team.
- Monitors production operation of and maintain the availability of assigned applications.
- Involves reviewing and reacting to daily performance logs and providing 24x7 on call support.
- Responds to production emergencies (application down and logic errors) within the appropriate Service Level Agreement (SLA).
- Works with Senior level and above on responses for critical and high Incidents, System Disruption Events (SDEs), major events.
- Assists users and answers users' questions. Troubleshoots issues and implements fixes to assigned solutions.
- Can work effectively with less defined direction requiring greater judgment.
- Communicates appropriate information including downtimes, change management, status, issues, defects, etc. to users, IT management and any other necessary audience.
- Can present information on technically complex subjects in an understandable manner in both oral and written form.
- Works with vendors to implement and/or support (broke-fix, defects, maintenance, patches, upgrades, service packages) applications and solutions.
- Utilizes waterfall and agile methodologies to develop and maintain applications.
- Works on projects as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and/or developers.
- Coordinates routine maintenance for emergency patches, service packs and upgrades (software) for assigned application/project.
- Involves working with operations/DBAs.
- Updates documentation of Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping (ADDM), Einstein, etc.
- Utilizes appropriate Human Performance tools effectively during activities, especially testing and implementation activities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or related discipline from an accredited institution preferred.
- 7 years of Information Technology experience.
- 3 years of Kafka administration experience.
- 2 years recommended experience with Confluent Kafka.
- 4 years of experience in SQL coding and Business Intelligence Analysis.
- Knowledge of Confluent Command Line Interface (CLI) to create ACLs for User and Group Principals.
- Knowledge of Confluent Connector CLI administration (create, start, pause) and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Java development, specifically with KStreams experience and RBAC.
- Knowledge of Confluent Command Line Interface.
How to Apply: Click APPLY or send resume to, Mal Hayley at: [Link available when viewing the job] and Reference JO# 186012.
Strategic Staffing Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Company:Strategic Staffing SolutionsLocation:Raleigh - North Carolina - United StatesJob Types:ContractPost Date:November 8, 2021Valid Through:December 7, 2021