GCP and Kafka Lead

stance of Houston, TX or must be willing to relocate to the area. This position may require travel to project location

• Experience in Kafka administration and support.
• Strong understanding of Kafka internals (brokers, topics, partitions, replication, retention).
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry.
• Experience with AWS, Kinesis, ETL Informatica, CDC, Postgres
• Proficiency in Linux, shell scripting, and monitoring tools.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.
• Experience in supporting Kafka in cloud environments (AWS, GCP).

Preferred Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience in Kafka administration and support.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Scala, Java, or Python
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize Apache Kafka clusters in production and non-production environments.
• Handle Kafka-related incidents, service requests, and problem tickets.
• Ensure high availability and fault tolerance of Kafka services.
• Lead a small team of Kafka support engineers.
• Coordinate with development, infrastructure, and DevOps teams for issue resolution and enhancements.
• Act as the primary point of contact.
• Implement and maintain monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) for Kafka health and performance.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and log analysis.
• Drive automation of routine support tasks and deployments.
• Maintain detailed documentation of Kafka configurations, support procedures, and incident reports.
• Ensure compliance with security and audit requirements.

The job entails sitting as well as working at a computer for extended periods of time. Should be able to communicate by telephone, email or face to face. Travel may be required as per the job requirements.