Kafka Support Analyst

**Responsibilities**: - ** The Apps Support Tech Lead Analyst is responsible to partner with multiple technology teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals; identify and define necessary system enhancements; analyze existing system logic, identify problems; and recommend and implements solutions.**: - ** Provides expertise in area and an advanced level of understanding of the principles of apps support.**: - ** Partners with multiple technology areas and management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals.**: - ** Works closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts and Systems Analysts to determine and document Systems impacts and support requirements**: - ** Identifies risks, vulnerabilities and security issues; communicates impact; proposes risk mitigation options.**: - ** Acts as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts; allocates work.**: - ** Provides in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.**: - ** Directly impacts the business by influencing strategic functional decisions through advice, counsel or provided services.**: - ** Persuades and influences others through strong and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills**: - ** Performs other duties and functions as assigned**: **Qualifications**: - ** 6-10 years experience**: - ** Practical problem solving and strategic thinking skills**: - ** Demonstrated leadership, interpersonal skills and relationship building skills**: - ** Service oriented attitude**: - ** Ability to work in a fast-paced environment**: - ** Experience working or leading requirement gathering efforts for multiple large development projects at one-time**: - ** Proficient using basic technical tools and systems**: - ** Good interpersonal and communication skills**: **Education**: - ** Bachelor’s/University** degree, Master’s degree preferred**: - ** Additional Job Description**: - ** Minimum years of experience 4-5 + years.**: - ** 3+ years of professional experience in Kafka Admin.**: - ** Standing up and administering on premise Kafka platform.**: - ** Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka connect, schema registry, K-SQL, Rest Proxy, and Kafka control center.**: - ** Ensure optimum performance, high availability, and stability of solutions.**: - ** Create topics, setup Redundancy cluster, deploy monitoring tools, alerts, and has good knowledge of best practices.**: - ** Provide administration and operations of the Kafka platform like provisioning, access list Kerberos and SSL configurations.**: - ** 5+ years of experience as the UNIX/Linux System Administrator.**: - ** Experience in setting standards to automate Kafka installation scripts by using U-deploy.**: - ** Experience in Kafka automation such as topic creation and deletion using CI-CD tools.**: - ** Experience in High availability (Kafka v5-v6) cluster set-up, maintenance and ongoing 24/7 support.**: - ** Experience in Kafka capacity planning to calculating size of the cloud VMs and physical machines.**: - ** Must have excellent communications and interpersonal skills.**: - ** Design and architect solutions using Confluent Kafka**: - ** Must have knowledge on securing Kafka using Kafka ACLs.**: - ** Good to have knowledge of enablement of Kafka connectors.**: - ** Must have experience with security in Confluent Kafka v5.* and above.**: - ** Out-of-the-box thinking regarding technology solutions and in resolving technical issues for the team.**: - ** Will be required to provide high-level technical support for automated solutions in production including aspects around availability/uptime.**: - ** Strong scripting knowledge using any scripting tools.**: - ** Good to have knowledge on monitoring tools using ITRS**: **Citi Canada is an equal opportunity employer. Accordingly, we will make accommodations to respond to the needs of people with disabilities (including, without limitation, physical and mental health disabilities) during the recruitment process and otherwise in accordance with law. Individuals who view themselves as Aboriginals, members of visible minority or racialized communities, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.**: - **Job Family Group**: Technology - **Job Family**: Applications Support - **Time Type**: Full time - Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. View the "**EEO is the Law**" poster. View the **EEO is the Law Supplement**. View the **EEO Policy Statement**. View the **Pay Transparency Posting