IT - Technology Lead | Java | J2EE

o Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK). o Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost. o Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. o Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus. o Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. o Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing. Contract Deliverables Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks. Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close. Minimum years of experience: 8-10 years Education: Bachelor s / Masters The top 3 responsibilities would expect the Subcon to shoulder and execute: Coding Debugging Unit Testing Project Code: AVOCC AOA ASTRO Tools and Automation SOW

Education Qualification required: Bachelor s / Masters Must have skills: SRE, or DevOps 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale. Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker Confluent Replicator Strong Linux fundamentals networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing) Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration. Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime. Good to Have Skills: Kafka Administrator