Kafka Developer

*Required Skills/Experience:* * At least 5+ years of Hands-on development experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with the interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper, Producers/Consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams. * Strong Experience with Kafka connect / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model. * Hands on experience with Kafka Db connector for Oracle, MySQL * Strong fundamentals and experience in Kafka administration, configuration, and troubleshooting. * Understand and experience with Kafka clustering, and its fault-tolerance model supporting HA and DR. * Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams clusters. * Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for debugging complex issues and mature code. * Experience with using agile methodologies for software development. * Experience with developing KSQL queries and best practices of using KSQL vs streams. * Familiarity with Confluent Control Center; or have worked on Kafka Monitoring Tool (UI). * Ability to work in fast-paced and dynamically changing environment. * Ability to lead the effort; and work with minimum supervision. *Good to Have skills :* * Understanding of Microservices technologies including- Sprint Boot, Java * Apigee API Integration platform. * Appian experience plus * SQL Server, Oracle, Stored Procedure Job Type: Contract Pay: $55.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Schedule: * 8 hour shift Experience: * Kafka Development: 8 years (Required) Work Location: In person