Senior Kafka Specialist - Remote Contractor

Category: IT Services

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For an International Institution in Geneva, we are urgently looking for an experienced Senior Kafka Specialist. Candidates need to be fluent in English.
This positions is long-term. Work permit not required. This role is open for employees and contractors.
Tasks and responsibilities:
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• Developing Kafka consumer applications and streams to perform 2-way synchronisation (Oracle-Kafka-MongoDB);
  
• Extracting data from Oracle to Kafka topics using Kafka Connect and Change Data Capture
  
• Performing basic ETL to transform the topics into the correct target structure;
  
• Loading transformed data as MongoDB documents;
  
• Conversely, doing the synchronization and transformation from MongoDB back to Oracle;
  
• Creating the necessary tests to ensure delivered code is working as per requirements;
  

Profile:

• Bachelor or Master degree;
  
• +5 years in Software Development, Linux System Administration or in DevOps capacity;
  
• +2 years building and managing solutions using Apache Kafka;
  
• Experience in converting monolith applications into microservices architecture;
  
• Demonstrated experience using DevOps and CI/CD techniques (Jenkins, GIT, Docker);
  
• Able to train development and production teams;
  
• Strong knowledge of Kafka components, Kafka security model;
  
• Team player with a positive attitude and a solution driven mentality;
  
• Fluency in English;
  

Interested: Please send your resume and to [email protected]

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