Kafka Administrator

As a Kafka Administrator at Cargill you will work across the full set of data platform technologies spanning on-prem and SAS solutions empowering highly performant modern data centric solutions. Your work will play a critical role in enabling analytical insights and process efficiencies for Cargill’s diverse and complex business environments. You will work in a small team who shares your passion for building, configuring, and supporting platforms while sharing, learning and growing together.  

• Develop and recommend improvements to standard and moderately complex application support processes and procedures. 
• Review, analyze and prioritize incoming incident tickets and user requests. 
• Perform programming, configuration, testing and deployment of fixes or updates for application version releases. 
• Implement security processes to protect data integrity and ensure regulatory compliance. 
• Keep an open channel of communication with users and respond to standard and moderately complex application support requests and needs. 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 2-4 year of minimum experience
• Knowledge of Kafka cluster management, alerting/monitoring, and performance tuning
• Full ecosystem Kafka administration (kafka, zookeeper, kafka-rest, connect)
• Experience implementing Kerberos security
• Preferred:
• Experience in Linux system administration
• Authentication plugin experience such as basic, SSL, and Kerberos
• Production incident support including root cause analysis
• AWS EC2
• Terraform