What You'll Do
As a Kafka Administrator you will work as individual contributor in various incubation projects. This is a team which transforms research ideas into products that will be taken to market to make a meaningful difference for Cisco and the industry. Specifically, you will:
Work closely with domain specialists, business units and customers to convert ideas into functional specifications, build minimally viable products and engage in early field trials with customers
Participate in the design and prototyping of new technical architectures for incubation projects
Coordinate with members within your team and across other functional teams to develop components, services and applications end-to-end, from UI to backend while applying cloud native design principles when delivering the functionality desired by the business requirements
Who You'll Work With
The Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ET&I) team is a highly visible group which reports directly to Ciscos CEO. ET&I focuses on the next wave of innovation by anticipating, investing in, and incubating new technologies and business ventures.
You will be part of the Incubation team in the US, to develop new solutions, and bring them to market in a startup like environment. Find our more at eti.cisco.com
Who You Are
Ability to architect and create reference architecture for Kafka Implementation standards
Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, KSQL, CruiseControl ,Rest proxy, Operator and Kafka Control center.
Ensure optimum performance, high availability and stability of solutions.
Create topics, setup redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts and has good knowledge of best practices.
Create stubs for producers, consumers and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
Use automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins.
Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
Strong skills in In-memory applications, Database Design, Data Integration.
Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestion in Kafka usage.
Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and fine-tuning alerts on Prometheus, Grafana .
Setting up security on Kafka.
Providing naming conventions, Backup & Recovery and problem determination strategies for the projects.
Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security related issues.
Provide strategic vision in engineering solutions that touch the messaging queue aspect of the infrastructure
Background in one or more of the following domains: Cloud native networking, Service Meshes, App networking, Identity and L7 security frameworks
Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
Curious and a genuine desire for learning new technologies and developing new ideas
Someone who takes strong ownership of their work, and is committed to building successful products
Desired Skills
Knowledge of continuous integration & delivery, release management, test driven development, and lean/agile development methodologies like Scrum/Kanban and DevOps
Our organization is anticipating high growth. We are seeking talent with the agility and creativity to explore opportunities and fill in needs as they arise across our teams. Applicants should be seeking a flexible role, in which they not only provide leadership in their primary function, but also contribute in meaningful ways to other projects. We are looking for individuals who are excited about pivoting quickly to different domains that may be outside of their normal scope of responsibilities.
Why Cisco
#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.
We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think were old (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but were also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do you cant put us in a box!
But Digital Transformation is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)
Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.
So, you have colorful hair? Dont care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? Thats cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!
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