Kafka Engineer

Visa: Only for UK citizens, ILR, Dependent Visa (No Sponsorship Available, No PSW Please) Job Title: Kafka Engineer Duration: long-term contract Location: UK Based Remote Principal responsibilities : Work alongside product owners, technical leads, and customers to strategize 3–5-year plans for streaming software. Produce and maintain product and platform architecture in line with the central architecture governance functions. Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest proxy and Kafka Control centre. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume. Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform - provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations. Provide expertise and hands on experience working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms. Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API. Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in Kafka usage. Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab. Setting up security on Kafka, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues. Key Technologies Messaging technologies – Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka DevOps toolsets – GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins Automation – Ansible, Puppet Monitoring – Observability tools such as DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana, Instana, AppD