Confluent Kafka - CFK/MRC Architect - Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL

Our client seeks an Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect for a 12 Months project in Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL. Below is the detailed requirement Title: Confluent Kafka CFK/MRC Architect Location : Dallas, TX/ Chicago, IL Duration: 12 Months Job Description: Bachelor's degree preferably in Computer Science, Information technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline or equivalent experience with 12+ Minimum Experience We need someone who's good at setting up CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Confluent CFK, Kubernetes, Vault, SonarQube, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, and Harness. It's also important that DevOps Architect has experience with deploying the applications on Kubernetes using Rancher, Helm Charts and Harness. Plus, he/she should know about deploying Kafka MRC or CFK and the use of monitoring tools like Logic Monitor and Splunk. And it'd be great if he/she has experience with AWS services and on-prem as hybrid environment, especially setting up Confluent CFK or MRC, and know how to do S3 replication with Cloudian. Kubernetes Administration: Helm CRDs K8 Operators All general things in K8 including PVCs CFK Administration: Kafka Kraft/Zookeeper Kafka Connect Kafka Monitoring like consumer lag, broker health, topics growth, etc. Kafka Cluster Management (Topics, Partitions, Brokers, etc.) Kafka Backup Solution and Support Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem Experience with Rancher RKE2 K8s clusters and orchestration platform K8S cluster management, Monitoring, operational tools integration K8s cluster and secrets management integration K8s CSI plug-ins with object, file and block storage vendors Kubernetes backup solution and support S3/Cloudian object storage for shared infrastructure Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management Hands on experience with migrations tools Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible. Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages. Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (K8s) Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus. Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like Maven/Gradle, Java, and distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. Good to Have Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage