Responsibilities:
- Installation, configuration, and monitoring of new Data Platform instances when necessary, and conducting upgrades and patch applications when appropriate
- Administrative support for Kafka, Redis and NoSql platforms critical to our business needs
- Provide solutions and guidance to development teams when proposed architecture does not comply with architectural, performance or security guidelines
- Resolve performance issues using all available tools & take corrective actions when necessary
- Deployment of infrastructure across multiple environments
- Communicate to business stakeholders, technical teams and management in a consistent manner making complex technical issues and solutions clear, simple, and understandable
- Possess overall understanding of IT architecture, infrastructure standards, database, caching and middleware platforms, programming languages and tools
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of Data Management philosophies and apply them to existing and to-be architectures
- Ability to produce clear documentation around reoccurring processes
- Forward thinking, proactive approach to troubleshooting and system monitoring
- Ability to provide accurate resource and capacity planning
- Developing applications integrations on an as needed basis
- On-site Attendance
Experience:
- 1+ year of experience in an enterprise level infrastructure environment creating, designing and managing highly available Data Platform solutions
- 1+ year of experience with Apache Kafka. Working knowledge of Kafka clusters (brokers, topics, partitions, connectors, etc.)
- Working experience with Redis distributed cache and NoSQL databases like MongoDB
- Experience administering mission-critical Linux systems with a strong understanding of core Linux concepts and technologies (systems, memory/CPU/disk management, troubleshooting, Bash scripting, etc.)
- Proficiency in C# and/or Java
- Familiarity with different ingestion methods (.CSV, Flat File, RESTful, JSON, AVRO)
- Experience and understanding of traditional RDBMS Systems, CDC, ETL & ELT techniques
- Experience in working cohesively with Enterprise Infrastructure teams
- Provide after-hours support when necessary
- Computer-related degree or equivalent experience
- Ansible and/or Jenkins experience (Preferred)
- Understanding of Docker and/or Kubernetes containers (Preferred)
- Familiarity w/ Confluent Kafka design architecture and Kafka Streams API/ksqlDB (Preferred)
- Confluent Certified Administrator Certification (Preferred)
- Experience with Kafka Streams API/ksqlDB (Preferred)
- Exposure to Qlik Replicate (Preferred)
- Jira work/project tracking (Preferred)