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    Job Title: Kafka Engineer

    Location: UK (Hybrid)

    Type of Contract: Inside IR35

    Contract Duration: Long Term

    Rate: Open to Discuss

    Job Description:

    Key Qualities

     Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders.

     Strong problem solving an analytical skill.

     Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles


    environment.

     Understand the software development lifecycle process, specifically the standard


    engineering toolsets available to the team within CTO to design and develop software.

    Key Responsibilities

     Work alongside product owners, technical leads and customers to strategize 3–5-year plans
    for streaming software.

     Produce and maintain product and platform architecture in line with the central architecture
    governance functions.

     Implement patterns that provide customers with robust deployment patterns meeting HSBC
    service levels tiers.

     Ensure that platform and product architectures remain cost effective.

     Standing up and administer On-Prem clusters.

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

     Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry
    in a very high volume.

     Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists
    Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on
    Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File
    stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
     Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core
    concepts and API.

     Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage.

     Participate in work planning and estimation to ensure optimum performance, high


    availability, and stability of solutions.

     Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good
    knowledge of best practices. Create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups
    for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.

     Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab.

     Setting up security on Kafka, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues.

     Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.

    Key Technologies

    Messaging technologies –Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka

    DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins

    Automation – Ansible, Puppet

    Monitoring –Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana

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