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Position: Kafka Developer

Location: Tempe, AZ (Remote)

Duration: 12 Months

Client: TCS

Role Description:              

Experience: 9+ Years

Essential Skills and Role:

• Standalones identify and rectify the Kafka Messaging issues within justifying time.
• Work with the business and IT team to understand business problems, and to design implement, and deliver an appropriate solution using Agile methodology across the larger program.
• Work independently to implement solutions on multiple platform (DEV, QA, UAT, PROD).
• Provide technical direction, guidance, and reviews to other engineers working on the same project.
• Administer Distributed Kafka cluster in Dev, QA, UAT, PROD environments and troubleshoot performance issue
• Implement and debug subsystems/microservice and components.
• Follows automate-first/automate-everything philosophy.
• Hands on in programming languages.

Key skills required for Kafka Developer:

• Deep understanding of Confluent Kafka: Thorough knowledge of Kafka concepts like producers, consumers, topics, partitions, brokers, and replication mechanisms.
• Programming language proficiency: Primarily Java or Scala, with potential for Python depending on the project.
• System design and architecture: Ability to design robust and scalable Kafka-based data pipelines, considering factors like data throughput, fault tolerance, and latency.
• Data management skills: Understanding of data serialization formats like JSON, Avro, and Protobuf, and how to manage data schema evolution.
• Kafka Streams API (optional): Knowledge of Kafka Streams for real-time data processing within the Kafka ecosystem.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting: Familiarity with tools to monitor Kafka cluster health, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot issues.
• Cloud integration : Experience deploying and managing Kafka on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Distributed systems concepts: Understanding of concepts like distributed consensus, leader election, and fault tolerance.
• Security best practices: Knowledge of Kafka security features to implement authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Communication and collaboration: Ability to work effectively with other developers, data engineers, and stakeholders to design and implement Kafka solutions.

Thanks & Regards

KumaraSwamy

iTech US, Inc

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