Title : Kafka Engineer/Admin

Location : Alpharetta, GA Job Type : Contract

Position Requirements:

This position is for Verizon’s IT system for a mission critical application.

6 years of Technology Experience

4+ years Installing and Configuring Kafka

2+ Years in Installing and Configuring IBM MQ

Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ

collaboration with developing team and support team.

familiar with java

Mandatory : Experience 10 years of IT industry

local candidates - Alpharetta, GA

First interview - Video

second interview in person

Must have Skills:

●IBM MQ Administration and Technology Experience ● well-versed experience as Kafka Administrator ● Installing and Configuring Kafka ● Hands-on experience in creating Kafka Topics/brokers & setup Zookeeper instances. ● Know how to setup - scheduler as well as Real time data ingestion (from source to sink) using Kafka connectors (supporting CRUD operations) ● Experienced in creating Kafka producers and consumers using micro services. ● Error handling & retry/replay of messages if upstream/downstream system fails (error topic/queue concept) ● Well-versed in deploying Kafka nodes as POD or Docker containers on Oracle cloud environment (OCI). ● Kafka monitoring dashboard setup using tools like Grafana ● Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ on Linux ● Experienced in creating the MQ clustering queues and channels. ● Experience in IBM MQ/ WMQ Administration like QMgr, Channels, Cluster, Remote Queues ● Configuration and troubleshooting of SSL for Queue managers. ● Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ distributed queuing environment ● Working knowledge of WebSphere MQ 9.0/9.1 on Linux platform ● J2EE Integration Developer ● Experience in - Docker, Kubernetes containerization, Spring boot framework for systems Integration ● Jenkins, Ansible, GIT, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes ● Scripting and code writing skills needed for utility and adhoc projects. ● Experience using SQL on Oracle 12c or 19c ● Unix Shell Scripting experience ● J2EE Integration Developer ● Exposure to working with Cloud computing, especially Oracle Cloud. ● Exposure to Infrastructure automation, scalability, micro services architecture

Preferred Skills:

● Experience installing and upgrading WebSphere MQ on Linux ● Experience working with IBM vendor for any product-related issues and apply the fix ● Configuration and troubleshooting of SSL for Queue managers ● Experience working with Java JDK Ver 11+, Microservices development ● Working knowledge of JMS ● Required experience in Camel ● Understand, in detail, the different MQ functions ● Time management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed to collaborate and work with multiple teams.

Thanks & Regards,

Pradeep Kumar.s

Team Lead (US Operation)

Contact: 972-347-8311

Email: pradeep.s@zirlen.com