Ampcus Inc

Perform Kafka cluster build, including design, infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Basic understanding of networking and load balancing, okta integration. Basic automation skills using shell scripting, ansible and terraform. Have hands on experience in the following: create topics, grant permissions, offset reset, troubleshooting issues, upgrade cluster, installing various Kafka components via ansible scripts (broker, zoo keeper, connect, schema registry, KSQL). Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Python, kSQLDB, terraform.

infrastructure engineer

Infrastructure Engineer - Kafka * To start as REMOTE POSITION, but when in-office becomes a requirement, they would need to report to any of the client’s locations - Bloomfield CT, Morris Plains NJ, Plano TX, Bloomington MN, St Louis MO.   Monday-Friday, Full-time. Core Hours 8 am-5 pm EST. Duties<ul><li>Perform Kafka cluster build, including design, infrastructure planning, High Availability and Disaster Recovery</li><li>Implementing wire encryption using SSL, authentication using SASL/LDAP & authorization using Kafka ACLs in Zookeeper.</li><li>Creating connect cluster and connector deployment.</li><li>Good understanding of Schemas and schema registry</li><li>Help maintain current Kafka clusters by performing upgrade, performance tuning, monitoring setup, adding new features, etc.</li><li>Research new features and conduct proof of concept installation and testing.</li><li>Ability to work with various infrastructure, development and administration teams.</li><li>Support of Kafka in On-Premise and Cloud AWS and Azure</li><li>Help/Support Application Teams with respect to their Kafka Implementation and Issue triage</li><li>Work with Vendor partners to open cases and work with them to resolution</li><li>Work with security team to remediate product vulnerabilities</li><li>Work with application teams to gather requirements and understand the design and help them with the build path to production</li><li>Work with application teams to do performance and resiliency testing</li><li>Implementing best practices and work with product owners to implement the roadmap</li><li>Good understanding of provisioning resources in AWS and/or Azure</li><li>Creating the instances, storage volumes and security groups</li><li>Basic understanding of networking and load balancing, okta integration</li><li>Basic automation skills using shell scripting, ansible and terraform</li><li>Documenting the best practices</li><li>Team player</li><li>Have hands on experience in the following: create topics, grant permissions, offset reset, troubleshooting issues, upgrade cluster, installing various Kafka components via ansible scripts (broker, zoo keeper, connect, schema registry, KSQL)</li><li>Familiar with writing/updating ansible scripts.</li><li>Experience with research and POC of new features/technology</li><li>AWS/Azure experience</li></ul>Skills: Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, AWS, Azure, Ansible, Python, kSQLDB, terraform. Education Bachelor's degree (REQUIRED) or higher in a relevant field For more information please contact Tom Mazzulla at  tmazzulla@itechsolutions.com Since 1995, iTech Solutions Inc., has been providing IT Consulting and Direct Hire Services to the Insurance, Financial, Communications, Manufacturing  and Government sectors with local offices in Connecticut, Minnesota, Colorado,  Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, and New Jersey / Pennsylvania area.  Our recruiting strategy is simple, if you want to find qualified IT professionals then use IT professionals to find them.   So at iTech Solutions,  our personnel are all career IT professionals with a wide range of IT experience.  We can honestly say our staff understands the technologies, the complexities of finding and selecting the appropriate personnel and the pressures of running successful IT projects.   Employer will not sponsor applicants for any employment visas, at hiring or in the future, including but not limited to H-1B visas. Corp-to-Corp or subcontract personnel will not be considered for this position.

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