Job Description
The Role: Cloud Engineer III will be working on developing and maintaining the corporate messaging infrastructure ensuring message delivery, security, retention, and recoverability of the topics and messages. The role will have opportunities to work on various platforms managed by the team including Kafka, Apigee, Kong, Axway and Sonic MQ deployed on Cloud as well as on premise datacenters. The role will also work on on-call support, troubleshooting issues reported by client teams and provide resolutions.
Responsibilities
- Work on large scale multi-nodes Kafka and API Management clusters residing on AWS and on-prem Datacenters.
- Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for the platform infrasture.
- Monitor key performance metrics, measuring the utilization, and overall health of the clusters.
- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automate key administration tasks.
- Ability to closely collaborate with application teams on code releases and troubleshooting issues.
- Onboarding APIs,Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, setup alerts.
- Perform high-level, day-to-day operational maintenance, support, and upgrades for api and messaging platform.
- Work on developing and maintaining API Gateway platforms such as Apigee, Kong and Axway.
Mandatory Skills
- Hands-on experience with messaging tools specially Kafka.
- Experience in managing Infrastructure hosted on AWS and on-prem.
- Experience on Linux, scripting and administration tasks.
- Experience working in AWS.
- Experience on API gateways management and APIs onboardings.
- Experience in open source or Confluent Kafka, zookeepers, Kafka connect and schema registry.
- Experience in High availability cluster setup, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support
- Establish best practice standards for configuring Kafka brokers, topics and consumer groups.
- Hands on experience in standing up and administrating Kafka platform from scratch which includes creating a backup & mirroring of Kafka Cluster brokers, broker sizing, topic sizing, h/w sizing, performance monitoring, broker security, topic security, and access management (ACL)
- Ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable.
- Demonstrate a product mindset with an ability to set forward thinking and direction.
- Good Knowledge on API Gateways such as Apigee/Kong/Axway and authorization frame works.
Optional Skills
- Experience in building Kafka pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud formation templates
- Experience in setting up Prometheus/Grafana or ELK monitoring tools is a plus.
- Experience as Linux (RHEL) /Unix administrator is huge plus.
- Experience in Kubernetes and DevOps technologies is a plus.