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Senior Kafka Specialist - Remote Contractor
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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:
- 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;
- 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;
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