Kafka Engineer - Contract Opportunity
6 months to end of March 2025 with extension thereafter
Day Rate circa £575-£625 (inside IR25)
Location will be a mix of WFH with 1 day a week also working in London or Sheffield (depending on where candidate lives)
We are currently recruiting on behalf of a large FS organisation who is looking for a number of skilled Kafka Engineers who will be responsible for building and deploying Kafka clusters on both on-prem and public cloud Kubernetes environments.
These roles will also involve providing:
- Hands on experience working on Kafka connect using schema registry in a very high volume.
- Administration and operations of the Kafka platform - Working on Kafka connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
- Hands on experience on custom connectors using the Kafka core concepts and API.
- Using automation tools like provisioning using Docker, Jenkins, and GitLab.
- Setting up security on Kafka, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues.
Myles Roberts is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.