Kafka Developer

Role: - Kafka Developer Location: - O’Fallon , MO ContractKafka ::Apply SRE principles to improve reliability, availability, and performanceDrive DevOps & automation initiatives to reduce toil and manual operationsBuild and enhance automation using Ansible, scripts, and CI/CD pipelinesPerform incident management, RCA, capacity planning, and operational readinessCollaborate closely with application and platform engineering teamsContribute to Java-based tooling and platform enhancementsWhat We’re Looking For3–6 years of experience working with Kafka / messaging systemsStrong understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, replication)Hands-on experience with SRE / DevOps practicesProven skills in automation (Ansible, scripting, CI/CD)Java development background (ability to debug, enhance, or build platform tools)Experience with Linux, distributed systems, monitoring & alertingExposure to incident response, production support, and operational excellence• Messaging - kafka, IBM MQ, nats, Flink• config management tool - Chef infra, habitat, ansible• CI-CD - Bitbucket, Jenkins, XLR, Git• Scripting- Shell, Python• Event Management tools -Splunk, Dynatrace, Promethius• Cloud - Preferred AWS.• Primary - MQ or KAFKA (MANDATORY) and Ansible(or any config management tool), Chef - writing playbooksSecondary - Shell, Splunk, Dynatrace, AWS,