CareCone Group

Title: Kafka Engineer

Remote: Australia

Contract: 6 Months

 

Job Description:

What you'll bring to the role

* As an individual contributor, design and implement event streams that teams can use to deliver different business needs.
* Work with teams to ensure integration best practices and tools are rolled out in every service across the whole organisation.
* Foster a culture that puts reliability first and establish processes and policies that drive reliability within different teams. This includes things like SLAs, error budgets, on-call response, incident resolution, observability best practices.
* Deep investigation into production incidents followed up by applying the learning to code.
* Propose new approaches and solutions to ensure we future-proof our platform as we scale.
* Strong communication and team collaboration skills, both written and verbal. As a Kafka Engineer, you will need to share the knowledge, communicate, and coordinate changes across multiple service teams.

Experience

* Understanding Event Streaming patterns and when to apply these patterns
* Designing, building, and operating in-production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions using Apache Kafka
* Developing solutions using Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, kSQL DB, and/or Apache Flink
* Working with different database solutions for data extraction, updates, and insertions
* Identity and Access Management space, including relevant protocols and standards such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, LDAP etc.
* Working with languages such as Terraform, Kustomize, Bash Script, JavaScript and Java for both setting up Kafka Infrastructure and creating Streaming Apps
* Performance tuning of solutions built on Apache Kafka, from Kafka Connect, Topics, Consumers, Producers, kSQL DB, and Apache Flink
* Knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP, HTTP/2, WebSockets, etc.

 

Bonus Experience

* Confluent certifications in Administration and/or Development
* Using the Confluent for Kubernetes Operator
* Development of custom Kafka Connectors
* Development of Kafka Stream Apps with the Streams API
* Understanding of resiliency techniques and patterns – load balancing, throttling, back pressure, circuit breaking, etc.

 

Interested candidates can share their CVs at "kranthi.kumar@carecone.com.au"

Apache Kafka

Database

Apache HTTP Server

Software Development

Kubernetes

Data

JavaScript

Java

Bash

Big Data

Data Integration

Terraform

Infrastructure

Communications

Team collaboration

Network

WebSocket

Database Schema

Apache Flink

HTTP

Confluence

Identity Management

OAuth 2.0

OIDC

SAML

LDAP

Kafka Software Engineer