Consultant Messaging Platform Engineer - Kafka

Company: Dell
Location: Somerville
Posted on: January 9, 2022

Job Description:

Consultant Messaging Platform Engineer -- Kafka
The ability to drive human progress through technology relies on robust and reliable IT infrastructure - and that's what our IT Infrastructure team provides to our customers. We're a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. Alongside supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Consultant Messaging Platform Engineer -on our Dell Digital team in US .

What you'll achieve
The Consultant Messaging Platform Engineer -provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments to include performance of the following related tasks: software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, implementation and backup and recovery.
Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using scripting languages. You will also be able to handle critical operational tasks as well as on-demand requests.

You will:
Design, build and support Enterprise large scale distributed Messaging platforms
Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform (considerations include business continuity/disaster recovery, backup and restoration, repartitioning, zero-outage upgrades, etc).
Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers.
Lead capacity planning and proactive monitoring efforts
Work in Agile global team setting and mentor junior team members

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

Total 10 + years of experience in middleware messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions
Strong Proven experience in managing Kafka for large scale enterprise distributed systems
Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus and Elastic search
Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka
Mentor junior team members and work independently and/or team setting as needed.
Agile/scrum fast based delivery experience
Experience with RabbitMQ/Other Messaging platforms.
Expertise in -administration -and scaling of Kafka messaging platform.
Excellent problem solving and debugging skill for complex and large-scale messaging platform.
Proficiency with configuration management tools (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)

Desirable Requirements
Proven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration, Docker Containers.
Experience with Open source technologies
Experience with Python/Java/Other programming languages

Here's our story; now tell us yours
Dell Technologies helps organizations and individuals build a brighter digital tomorrow. Our company is made up of more than 150,000 people, located in over 180 locations around the world. We're proud to be a diverse and inclusive team and have an endless passion for our mission to drive human progress.

What's most important to us is that you are respected, feel like you can be yourself and have the opportunity to do the best work of your life -- while still having a life. We offer excellent benefits, bonus programs, flexible work arrangements, a variety of career development opportunities, employee resource groups, and much more.

We started with computers, but we didn't stop there. We are helping customers move into the future with multi-cloud, AI and machine learning through the most innovative technology and services portfolio for the data era. Join us and become a part of what's next in technology, starting today.

You can also learn more about us by reading our latest Diversity and Inclusion Report and our plan to make the world a better place by 2030 here .

Dell is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Dell are based on busines

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