Technical Systems Engineer - Kafka (1383747)

Job Description Who We AreToday's challenging business environment is more than that - it's a period of disruption between the pandemic, global business change and internal process complexity. For us to focus on simplicity and the best customer experience, we need great talent and the right skillsets to be successful. This is now a mantra for our Cisco leadership team and for us.The Cisco IT team is changing the way we run Cisco's operations by improving the power of technology, the best of business processes and outstanding data insights. Together, we will Reinvent the Cisco experience. Show the world how to Reinvent applications and use the future of the Internet to Showcase the power of Cisco: our people, products, processes, systems, and data. Please join us and make this journey together!What You'll DoWe in Cisco IT are going through a major transformation of our business processes to reduce time to capability and improve performance using Messaging Platform (Kafka). To support this transformation, we are looking for an experienced and versatile individual to expand our capabilities by embracing industry leading Kafka solutions. We are looking for an ideal candidate who have experience configuring, deploying and fixing large scale Kafka clusters in a production environmentResponsibilitiesImplementation, administration, and handling of Kafka Messaging platforms and integration technology platforms.Guide in Kafka brokers, zookeeper, Kafka schema registry and Rest proxyHandle Large Scale Enterprise production systems in multiple regions.Benchmarking and performance tuning critical integration systems.Strong emphasis on solving and debuging issues during On-call Incidents and Service RequestsSupport end-to-end enterprise applications using Kafka for business requirements working closely with Engineering IT/BU.Experience with alerting, monitoring and observability to ensure up-time and system availability.Solid knowledge of monitoring tools and tuning alerts on Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana.Address Security Remediation & Software UpgradesProvide strategic vision in engineering solutionsTranslate functional and technical requirements into detailed architecture and design.Who You'll work withAs part of the Cisco IT team, you will be working alongside engineers who are looking to improve the way how we use integrations using Kafka today. The team works together to ensure that the Our team works in a fast paced, agile environment where you will need to be prepared to learn and adjust to new standards.Who You AreWe're seeking a passionate and experienced individual with exposure in Messaging Platforms (Kafka) and integration solutions. As a Technical Systems Engineer, you will also need to have experience working on large-scale enterprise Messaging Platforms. We require applicants to have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or meaningful work experience.Minimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or relevant work experience.Hands on development experience with coding languages such as Java or Python or GoLangMust have experience managing large distributed systems using standard Git-Ops modelExperience in managing Infrastructure as a Code using tools like Jenkins, Confd. Some Exposure to Ansible, Terraform, Kustomize and ConjurExperience API testing tools such as Postman, Curl, SoapUI etc.Must have experience in Unix / Shell scripting through an agile development life cycle.Must have knowledge of Kubernetes/Rancher, REST, OAuth, SAML, OIDC.Knowledge of infrastructure and application monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, ScienceLogic, AppDynamics and SplunkExperience with and cloud native application development.Preferred Qualifications5 years of experience configuring and supporting Enterprise Messaging platforms such as Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.5+ years experience with building large scale distributed software systemsProven understand of Java and understanding of operational SLAExtensive hands-on experience with system administration of associated platformsBehavioral CompetenciesMust be a team player and work well in small and large group environments.Must be highly driven and motivated with high level of initiative.Must have excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.Why Cisco#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an expansive future for all.We adopt digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, ambitious steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!#LI-RK4  Read More