Job Description

As a Kafka Engineer you will be responsible for the reliable, scalable deployment of multiple Kafka clusters.

• Build & integrate with other systems for provisioning, monitoring, and alerting. Working closely with our global teams and Asia Application development teams to engineer Kafka development best practices into producer/consumer application design,
• You will help deliver this project with a high level of automation and reliability. We want to minimize manual processes and strong software engineering proficiency in this role is key.
• Work in an agile environment to manage and operationalize Confluent Kafka components (zookeepers, brokers, Control Center, Rest proxies, Connect, replicators) in a multi data center (on premise and public cloud) environment.
• Evolve and optimize enterprise-grade Kafka topologies as organizational utilization grows.
• Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers.
• Implement solutions to monitor Kafka components to proactively address any Kafka messaging issues.
• Conduct multi-environment capacity planning.
• Identify and implement best practices to support a highly-available deployment (considerations include business continuity/disaster recovery, backup and restoration, repartitioning, zero-outage upgrades, etc.).
• Develop and exercise automated infrastructure testing to ensure Kafka configuration changes or upgrades are not detrimental to Kafka-integrating applications.
• Assist with development of self-service tooling and playbooks to enable development community to easily provision and configure Kafka.
• Author automated services to provision and instantiate Kafka clusters across multiple platforms (on premise and public cloud).
• Enforce security standards as part of overall Kafka implementation.
• Provide in-depth expertise on evolving Kafka capabilities.

Total Experience: 12+ yrs

• 4+ years of equivalent professional experience of event management & messaging/ streaming platform architecture and its implementation (example Kafka, SQS etc.)
• Experience with development languages likely used for Kafka integration. OOPS based programming knowledge (Java/python etc.)
• Familiarity with event-based and stream-processing application and data hub development.
• 2+ years of solid experience installing, configuring, administering, monitoring, and troubleshooting Confluent (preferably) or Apache Kafka.
• 9+ years' progressive technology hands on experience with deep understanding of technical capabilities offered through Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with automation-centric scripting and/or tooling such as Ansible.
• Exposure to public AWS cloud AWS.
• Understanding of Database concepts and ETL
• High energy and passionate individual who inspires teammates to reach their maximum potential
• Excited about trying new solutions
• Embraces a culture of trust and complete transparency
• Promotes free thought and is energized by ideas from others in team.
• Brave and rebellious, willing to challenge status quo.
• Seen as an Effective Collaborator that works to achieve desired outcomes of team and Sun Life.
• Ability to identify innovative business solutions and implement
• Communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions.
• Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the team's potential.
• Ability to Influence both those within the team and supporting groups to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Comfortable working with quick turnaround times and deadlines
• B.E/B.Tech/BCA/MCA from a reputed organization

Skills:

• DigitalTransformationConsultng

What you can expect from us:

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While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today - one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal-opportunity employer, we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

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