Senior Kafka Automation Engineer Plano, TX/Charlotte, NC/ Jersey City, NJ

7 - 10 years of hands-on experience of software development. Understand & update existing automation programs and develop new infrastructure automation for deploying and managing Confluent Kafka in nternal or external cloud.

Hands-on development experience of Terraform and Python/Ansible is must. Capture business requirements from LOBs and design solution in collaboration with engineering and operations teams. Work closely with Application Development/Support teams to understand the usage of messaging protocols within application software. Document the business requirements and develop plans to address the problem/requirement. Develop testing automation and troubleshoot problems during testing. Analyze IT security standards and policies for multiple projects of high complexity.

Responsible for providing IT security and automation expertise. Provides baseline security standards and policies for multiple projects of high complexity. Will be identifying potential threats and risks and making recommendations to prevent these issues.

Key individual contributor, with accountability for enabling secure environments (processes and technologies) for the business and technology groups. Utilizes technical and business knowledge to design and implement secure, risk-based solutions, exercising judgment within broadly defined practices and policies. Results oriented, business focused, and successful at interfacing across multiple organizational units, at various levels.

Confluent Kafka along with Automation using Terraform and Python/Ansible