Kafka Architect

S2S Soft is a Global IT Solutions and Services company with unmatched expertise spread across various Industrial Internet like IT Staff, Document Management, Software Development, Mechanical Design and Independent Software Vendors. Our clients have relied on us for providing Technology initiatives and support for their business processes in the areas of Enterprise Application Management, Custom Application Management, Business Intelligence & EAI, Infrastructure Management & Security and Quality Assurance & Testing Services.S2S Soft understands the unique challenges faced by various industries. Through hands on experience earned from different client engagements, we enable our customers to address their challenges with tailor made solutions best suited to their present systems. With a firm eye on Return on Investments of our customer, we conceive, build and deploy solutions that are robust, scalable and yet flexible. We partner with our clients on their long-term initiatives by providing real value while demonstrating high level of professionalism and ethics metus.Please send your resume to for immediate consideration.Role: Kafka ArchitectLocation: Winston Salem, NC (Initial remote)Contract JD:Skills Required:- Advanced understanding/exposure to overall API-Management concepts.- Proficient in API Management features and multiple topologies to implement API runtimes.- Experience in Kafka Capacity planning, installation, administration/Platform management and deep knowledge of Kafka internals.- Experience in Kafka Cluster, Partitions, Security, Disaster recovery, Data pipeline, Data replication, Performance optimization- Experience with Kafka Confluent / Apache framework, Kafka SQL KSQL, Kafka Connect and the Kafka Streaming APIs- Experience of Kafka Producer/Consumer Microservices concepts and Kafka distributed Architecture- Experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, Git, Jenkins, and Jira and automated testing of APIs.- Proficient in API Security Practices.Should know about configuring API Security (OAuth, JWT, 2-way SSL, etc.) on Kafka.- Contribute to our evolving DevOps practice for hosting and managing our microservices in the cloud.Must have deep understanding of Istio, Kubernetes and Docker architecture and associated tools.- Experience in confluent replicator Configuration to perform replication between the clusters in a multi-region environment.If your skills match these requirements, please send your resume to for immediate consideration. Please be assured that your resume will be reviewed and you will be contacted if there is an interest in your background and experience. Candidates should e-mail resume to address above. Be sure to reference the job number and title in the subject line.