Kafka Developer
FULL TIME
mid
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Better than ~65% of category
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Job Description
Talent Groups is seeking a Kafka Developer to design, deploy, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters. The role involves ensuring high availability and optimal performance for message streaming workloads while implementing security policies and managing cluster health.
Responsibilities:
Design, deploy, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across multi-environment production infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and optimal performance for mission-critical message streaming workloads; Monitor cluster health, manage broker configurations, perform capacity planning, and troubleshoot latency and throughput issues using administrative tools (kafka-topics, kafka-configs, kafka-consumer-groups, JMX metrics); Implement security policies including authentication (SASL/SSL), authorization (ACLs), and encryption in transit; manage topic lifecycle, replication factors, and retention policies aligned with business
Qualifications:
Excellent Cassandra DB skills; Excellent REST API, Spring boot skills; Good Kafka skills; Design, deploy, and maintain Apache Kafka clusters across multi-environment production infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and optimal performance for mission-critical message streaming workloads; Monitor cluster health, manage broker configurations, perform capacity planning, and troubleshoot latency and throughput issues using administrative tools (kafka-topics, kafka-configs, kafka-consumer-groups, JMX metrics); Implement security policies including authentication (SASL/SSL), authorization (ACLs), and encryption in transit; manage topic lifecycle, replication factors, and retention policies aligned with business requirements; Talent Groups; Talent Groups delivers exceptional experiences by solving the toughest IT talent and technology challenges across all industries.; Founded in 2018; Houston, Texas, USA; 501-1000 employees; https://talentgroups.com/; H1B Sponsorship; Talent Groups has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor); Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship; Represents job field similar to this job; Trends of Total Sponsorships; Current Stage; Total Funding; Leadership Team; Matthew James Ripaldi; Chief Executive Officer; Recent News; VODA Talent Group Signs Japanese Kickboxing Prodigy Honoka Tsujii; Company data provided by crunchbase; Frontend Software Engineer; Entry Level; Past 24 hours; Years of Experience; Hidden Jobs; All Filters; Recommended; 5 hours ago; Full Stack Engineer (Remote); The Restaurant Store; E-Commerce · Food and Beverage · Growth Stage; United States; Entry, Mid, Senior Level; Why This Job Is A Match; The Restaurant Store is a provider of restaurant supplies and foodservice equipment. They are looking for a Full Stack Engineer to join their centralized development team, responsible for building and maintaining internal systems that power retail operations.; Experience Level; Industry Experience; 93 applicants; STRONG MATCH
Required Skills:
Cassandra, REST API, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Kafka cluster management, Kafka administrative tools, Kafka security policies, SASL, SSL, ACLs, Encryption in transit
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