Responsibilities:· Monitoring applications and infrastructure alerts· Recommending and implementing solutions to mitigate potential production issues· Taking ownership, responding to incident tickets, and closing open incident tickets by adhering to service level agreementsRequirements:a) 3-5 years of experience managing on premise Kafka Platformsb) Manage Kafka Cluster build, including Design, Infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery in an OpenShift environment.c) Perform day-to-day administration and support functions including capacity Management, performance, utilization, and health of the cluster.d) Undertake Lifecycle Management across the Kafka on premise environments.e) Research and recommend innovative ways to maintain the environment and ensure automation is undertaken.f) Setting up monitoring tools such as SPLUNK, Grafana to provide metrics from various Kafka cluster components (eg., Broker, Zookeeper, Connect, REST proxy, Schema Registry, KSQL)g) Undertake regular assessments of the platform health and stability, create improvement plans and ensure automation/lifecycle management is undertaken.h) Ansible Scripting for automation of Kafka installs hosted on OpenShift.i) Experience in Containerization (OpenShift / Kubernetes).j) Configuring AMQ from an infrastructure perspective, including performance monitoring, integration functions, delivery status and network management.k) Configuring adaptors from an application connectivity perspective, specifically Sterling Integrator B2B and AMQ.l) Handling Messaging features and functions typically used by applications, including ack/nak, recovery and error handling.
