Kafka Developer

Our client is a global technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. it focuses on helping organisations harness the power of data to drive digital transformation, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve sustainability. over 100 years of experience in operational technology (OT) and more than 60 years in IT to unlock the power of data from your business, your people and your machines. We help enterprises store, enrich, activate and monetise their data to improve their customers’ experiences, develop new revenue streams and lower their business costs. Over 80% of the Fortune 100 trust our client for data solutions.

The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal 2024 (ended March 31, 2024). approximately $57.5 billion USD., and the company has approximately 296,000 employees worldwide. It delivers digital solutions utilising Lumada in five sectors, including Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy and IT, to increase our customers’ social, environmental and economic value.

• Job Title: Kafka Developer
• Location: All Locations
• Experience: 10+
• Job Type: Contract to hire.
• Notice Period: Immediate joiners.
• Mandatory Skills: Kafka Developer (Event Streaming), Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams

• Experience - 10+ Years Deep understanding of Apache Kafka and the surrounding ecosystem (schema registries, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Kafka client libraries, Spark Structured Streaming)
• Independently resolving issues when deploying and setting up any sort of infrastructure (like cloud services) or applications (e.g., a Spring Boot application on App Service, or a Python Azure Function)
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and Docker Deep understanding/knowledge of public clouds, especially focusing on Azure, with focus on services such as Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service, OpenShift (Kubernetes in general), Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, Azure Data Lake Gen2/Azure
• Blob Storage Deep understanding of private networking and network topologies used in enterprises (e.g., private endpoints, VNets/VPCs, Private Link, DNS, firewalls, Hub Spoke topologies, etc.)
• Deep understanding of software design patterns and knowledge of popular programming languages (Java, C#, JavaScript, Python) with in-depth knowledge of at least one programming language
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts, and in-depth knowledge of at least one popular scripting tool and language (Terraform, Helm, Bash), and CI/CD framework (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, etc.)
• Experience with debugging software applications and setting up logging, observing, and monitoring
• Good understanding of developer portals such as Backstage, API Catalogs with OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specifications, templating (Jinja), API gateways (Azure API Management, IBM API Connect), WebSockets
• Experience in building event-driven microservices and REST API