Job Title: Kafka Cloud Architect Developer Location: Woodlawn, MD (Onsite) Visa: USC and GC only Duration: 6+ months MOI: Skype+ F2F “Candidate must obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance” Key Required Skills: Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink, Kafka Connect, Python, Java and SpringBoot. (Basic Qualifications) Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master degree with 10 years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted/accepted in lieu of degree. 12+ years of experience with modern software development including systems/application analysis and design. 7+ years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka and/or Apache Kafka). 2+ years of combined experience with designing, architecting, and deploying to AWS cloud platform. 1+ years of leading a technical team. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. ?(Required Skills) Expert experience with Confluent Kafka with hands-on production experience, capacity planning, installation, administration / platform management, and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals. Expert in Kafka cluster and application security. Strong knowledge of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Expert Experience in data pipeline, data replication and/or performance optimization. Kafka installation & partitioning on OpenShift or Kubernetes, topic management, HA & SLA architecture. Strong knowledge and application of microservice design principles and best practices: distributed systems, bounded contexts, service-to-service integration patterns, resiliency, security, networking, and/or load balancing in large mission critical infrastructure. Expert experience with Kafka Connect, KStreams, and KSQL, with the ability to know how to use effectively for different use cases. Hands-on experience with scaling Kafka infrastructure including Broker, Connect, ZooKeeper, Schema Registry, and/or Control Center. Hands-on experience in designing, writing, and operationalizing new Kafka Connectors. Solid experience with data serialization using Avro and JSON and data compression techniques. Experience with AWS services such as ECS, EKS, Flink, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and/or S3. Basic knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL, DB2, or Oracle), SQL, and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, and/or Spring JPA). Desired Skills Disaster recovery strategy Domain Driven Design (DDD) AWS cloud certifications. Delivery (CI/CD) best practices and use of DevOps to accelerate quality releases to Production. PaaS using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers. Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, CloudFormation / Terraform). Solid experience with Spring Framework (Boot, Batch, Cloud, Security, and Data). Solid knowledge with Java EE, Java generics, and concurrent programming. Solid experience with automated unit testing, TDD, BDD, and associated technologies (Junit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium, and Karma/Jasmine). Working knowledge of open-source visualization platform Grafana and open-source monitoring system Prometheus and uses with Kafka? Education: ?Bachelor's Degree in with 12+ years of experience Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance. Job Type: Contract Pay: $65.00 - $82.00 per hour Expected hours: 40 per week Work Location: In person