Urgent Need || Devops Engineer/Kafka Engineer || Any Visa || at Pransu Tech Solution

Devops Engineer/Kafka Engineer

T Rowe Price.

Owing Mills, Maryland

It’s two days a week on site (Monday & Tuesday)

1 Year Contract

Any Visa

Local candidate will get Interview

1^ST Virtual and 2^nd could be onsite

Role Description

• 
  The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, continuous integration, system administration, and Linux.
  • The candidate will be working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent cloud, Schema Registry, KStreams, and technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes to develop and manage infrastructure-related code on AWS platform.
  
  Responsibilities
  • Support systems engineering lifecycle activities for Kafka platform, including requirements gathering, design, testing, implementation, operations, and documentation.
  • Automating platform management processes through Ansible, Python or other scripting tools/languages .
  • Troubleshooting incidents impacting the Kafka platform.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design scalable solutions that meet business needs.
  • Develop documentation materials.
  • Participate in on-call rotations to address critical issues and ensure the reliability of data engineering systems.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the performance and reliability of Kafka in AWS environments.
  
  Required Technical Expertise
• 
  Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Kafka and its various components.
  • Strong Knowledge in Kafka Connect, KSQL and KStreams.
  • Implementation experience in designing and building secure Kafka/streaming/messaging platform at enterprise scale and integration with other data system in hybrid multi-cloud environment.
  • Experience in working with Confluent Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Schema Registry, and KStreams Infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.
  • Strong operational background running Kafka clusters at scale.
  • Knowledge of both physical/onprem systems and public cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of Kafka broker, connect, and topic tuning and architectures.
  • Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals as related to Kafka performance.
  • Background in both Systems and Software Engineering.
  • Strong understanding and working knowledge, experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster.
  • Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer with a focus on AWS.
  • Strong proficiency in AWS services such as EC2, IAM, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS and VPC. Working knowledge of networking - VPCs, Transit Gateways, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
  • Experience in monitoring and visualizing tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana.
  • Competent developing new solutions in one or more of high-level language Java, Python.
  • Competent with configuration management in code/IaC including Ansible and Terraform
  • Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment.
  • 3+ years of Python and Shell Scripting.
  • 3+ years of AWS DevOps experience.
  • Proficiency in distributed Linux environments.
  
  Preferred Technical Experience
  • Certification in Confluent Kafka and/or Kubernetes is a plus