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Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible

Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible

Centurion Consulting Group LLCGwynn Oak, MD, United States
3 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Temporary
Job description

Senior Kafka Administrator with Ansible at Centurion Consulting Group LLC summary :

Senior Kafka Administrator with expertise in designing, implementing, and managing Kafka platforms using Ansible automation and Linux administration. Responsible for architecting data streaming and event-driven architectures, ensuring platform reliability, automation, monitoring, and incident triage. Experienced in DevOps practices, scripting, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code to support mission-critical federal government systems.

Job Description

Centurion is looking for a Senior Kafka Admin with Ansible for our federal government client. This is a long term position that is 100% onsite in Woodlawn, MD.

Key Required Skills :

Kafka Architecture, Ansible Automation, RHEL / Linux Administration, Scripting (Bash, Shell, Python), Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus).

Position Description :

  • Architect, design, develop, and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies :

o Data Streaming, Event Driven Architecture, Event Processing Frameworks

o DevOps (Jenkins, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, SonarQube)

o Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform / CloudFormation, Scripting)

  • Administer Kafka including automating, installing, migrating, upgrading, deploying, troubleshooting, and configuring on Linux.
  • Provide expertise in one or more of these areas : Kafka administration, event-driven architecture, automation, application integration, monitoring and alerting, security, business process management / business rules processing, CI / CD pipeline and containerization, or data ingestion / data modeling.
  • Investigate, repair, and actively ensure business continuity regardless of impacted component : Kafka Platform, business logic, middleware, networking, CI / CD pipeline, or database (PL / SQL and Data Modeling).
  • Brief management, customer, team, or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
  • All other duties as assigned or directed
  • Skills Requirements :

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
  • Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
  • 8+ years of combined experience with Site Reliability Engineering, providing DevOps support, and / or RHEL administration for mission-critical platforms, ideally Kafka.
  • 4+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK)
  • 4+ years of experience with Ansible automation
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
  • Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site in Woodlawn, MD 5 days a week.
  • Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing, maintaining, or upgrading platforms
  • Solid experience using version control software such as Git / Bitbucket including peer reviewing Ansible playbooks
  • Hands-on experience administrating Kafka platform (Confluent Kafka, Apache Kafka, Amazon MSK) via Ansible playbooks or other automation.
  • Understanding of Kafka architecture, including partition strategy, replication, transactions, tiered storage, and disaster recovery strategies.
  • Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Bash, Shell, or Python
  • Solid foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration
  • Basic networking skills
  • Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues, outages, and incidents
  • Experience with integrating / maintaining various 3rd party tools like ZooKeeper, Flink, Pinot, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes and Docker containers
  • Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.
  • Desired :

  • Preferred Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
  • Practical experience with event-driven applications and at least one event processing framework, such as Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or ksqlDB.
  • Understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and experience applying DDD patterns in software development.
  • Experience working with Kafka connectors and / or supporting operation of the Kafka Connect API
  • Experience with Avro / JSON data serialization and schema governance with Confluent Schema Registry.
  • Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud providers; AWS cloud certifications.
  • Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation / Terraform, Scripting)
  • Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB), SQL, or / and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, or Spring JPA)
  • Knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA)
  • Education :

  • Bachelor's Degree with 7+ years of experience
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
  • Keywords :

    Kafka Administration, Ansible Automation, RHEL Linux, Data Streaming, Event-Driven Architecture, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Scripting Bash Python, Monitoring and Alerting, Containerization Docker Kubernetes

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