Contractor Need Kafka Developer

• Ability to lead design and implement Kafka based streaming and messaging solutions across on-prem and Confluent Cloud platform and provide technical direction.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Brokers and understanding of underlying functionality.
• Hands-on experience with Schema Registry and understanding of underlying functionality and understanding of underlying implementation.
• Create guidelines, procedures, and best practices for Kafka administration, development teams, and establish standards and conventions for the use of Kafka.
• Good understanding of Kafka client (Producer and Consumer) functionality.
• Guide and support upgrade/maintenance of Confluent Kafka platform from current version to latest release. Also support enhancements to confluent cloud clusters.
• Collaborate among development teams, product managers, operations teams, and architect groups to integrate Kafka into applications and data pipelines.
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and methodologies; able to learn and adapt to new developments in the Kafka ecosystem.
• Some weekend work to support Production Changes and major Incidents Escalations.

Must have skills:

1. Confluent Event Streaming Platform (Confluent Kafka/Confluent Cloud platform).
2. KSQL DB.
3. Schema registry and Kafka connectors.