Kafka Engineer - Contract Opportunity
6 months with extension thereafter - Day Rate circa £600 (inside IR35)
Hybrid working - 3 days a week on site (London or Sheffield depending where candidates live) and 2 days a week WFH
We are currently recruiting on behalf of a Global Banking organisation who is looking for a highly experienced (expert) Kafka Engineer who will be responsible for building and deploying Kafka clusters on both on-prem and public cloud Kubernetes environments.
Our ideal candidate will be an expert in the infrastructure build area - Must be able to show strong evidence of expert build of Kafka on Kubernetes.
The role will also involve providing:
- Hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.
- Administration and operations of the Kafka platform - Working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
- Hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
- Using automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab.
- Setting up security on Kafka, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues.
Myles Roberts is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.