Mandatory Skills
DevOps Kafka Splunk Ansible grafana
Responsibilities:
- Consult with inquiring teams on how to leverage Kafka within their pipelines
- Architect Build and Support existing and new Kafka clusters via IaC
- Partner with Splunk teams to route tra c through Kafka by utilizing open-source agents and collectors
- deployed via Chef
- Remediate any health issues within Kafka
- Automate (where possible) any operational processes on the team
- Create new and/or update monitoring dashboards and alerts as needed
- Manage a continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) pipeline
- Perform PoCs on new components to expand/enhance teams Kafka o erings
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience with Kafka clustering & administration
- 5 years of experience building deploying and supporting multiple Kafka clusters using IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) best practices
- Experience developing automated processes within and around Kafka to help supplement the service
- Experience working with multiple teams to build and architect data pipeline solutions where Kafka will be involved.
- Experience with Linux/Unix and system management
- IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) experience with Virtual/Physical Servers using Chef Ansible Jenkins Artifactory etc.
- Understanding of Git workflows continuous improvement / continuous development (CI/CD) concepts
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong technical acumen
- Strong analytical skills
- Experience working in Agile/Lean methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge and experience with Splunk Elastic Kibana and Grafana
- Knowledge and experience with log collection agents such as Open-Telemetry Fluent Bit FluentD Beats and LogStash.
- Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes / Docker
- Knowledge and experience with Kafka-Connect
- Knowledge and experience with AWS or Azure
- Knowledge and experience with Streaming Analytics
Skill (Primary): Microsoft Dynamics (APPS)-Microsoft Azure-Tools and Standards-Azure DevOps