Job description
Title: Confluent Administrator
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Long Term Contract
Job Description:
The Confluent Administrator will manage all aspects of the current platform including Kafka Clusters, Control Center, Schema Registry and Security Plug-ins with responsibility for maintaining, configuring and installing all components. In addition, Administrator will monitor performance across associated infrastructure and solution issues.
Top Required Skills:
1. Must have significant experience as Confluent Administrator
2. Ability to install and maintain all confluent platform components - Kafka Clusters, Control Center, Schema Registry, Security Plug-ins
3. Strong background in Terraform tool
4. Critical to be fluent in CI/CD pipelines and development environments
5. Requires good understanding of overall Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
6. Strong communication with ability to work closely with other team members and stakeholders
7. Independent resource who will own all development and monitoring
Nice-to-have:
1. Familiarity with Google Platform - both from computing and networking perspective
2. Previous use of either Google Key Management System (currently using) or Hashicorp (future state) tools
3. Building out in different scripting languages - Bash, Python, Cornshell
4. Understand Linux or Unix source codes
5. Background within financial services would be beneficial but not required
6. Experience in building out disaster recovery plans
Top Responsibilities:
· Responsible for overall Confluent Administration needs
· Able to configure, install and maintain confluent kafka clusters across multiple regions
· Monitor performance across all clusters and associated infrastructure to troubleshoot and resolve issues
· Manage access controls, security configurations and authentication protocols including SSO
· Document infrastructure configurations and procedures
Job Type: Contract
Salary: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Experience:
- kafka: 5 years (Preferred)
- confluent Kafka: 10 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote