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Job type full-time
Full job description
As a technology team member, you’re empowered to make an impact, employ your entrepreneurial spirit and build a career customized by you because at rocket, you canWe are creating digital products that solve life’s most complex momentsYou’ll get the chance to shape the future of tech, have your voice heard, get ahead in your career and develop your skillsWith a tech career here, there`s no limit to what you can achieve.
Preferred qualifications
Bachelor`s degree in computer science or equivalent, plus a minimum of 3 years of related work experience
Understanding of confluent kafka design and architecture
Experience with other integration platforms (such as message queues, esb’s, and api gateways) is a plus
Ability to debug problems and quickly resolve issues
Comfort working independently as well as with a team
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Drive and determination to learn, take on new challenges and become a better engineer
Job summary
As an application engineer, you will play a leading role in the configuration, performance, standards, and design of our confluent kafka enterprise service busYou will also ensure the stability, integrity, and efficient operation of kafka as well as apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issuesThis is an opportunity to work closely with developers, project managers, product owners, systems engineers, and architects.
Responsibilities
Administrative ownership of the confluent kafka vendor portal, including managing and approving non-admin user access
Management of the cloud platform
Create and maintain clusters at the enterprise level
Lead prod and non-prod environments
Manage the transit gateway
Track monthly usage-based billing for anomalies
Monitor system health proactively
Act as a liaison with confluent kafka support
Work with the vendor on support issues and feature requests
Proactively stay up to date on vendor changes and offerings
Fill the role of kafka subject matter expert
Acts as a consultant for internal teams with respect to best practices for using kafka
Help with topic creation and management
Own and manage the kafka schema registry
Guide new teams with first-time access and kafka usage
Educate teams on kafka capabilities such as ksqldb
Help set up kafka connectors to internal systems (on-prem and cloud)
Assist teams with adopting new features
Help to create and maintain reusable client libraries for internal teams to access kafka, supporting multiple languages such as c# and node.js
Support and maintain terraform modules for kafka topic creation
Who we are
Rocket companies® is a detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactionsThe name comes from our flagship business, now known as rocket mortgage®, which was founded in 1985Today, we`re a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate, automotive and moreWe`re insistently different in how we look at the world and committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heardAnd we`re passionate about the work we do, and it showsWe`ve been ranked #5 on fortune`s list of the 100 best companies to work for in 202 1, as well as ranking #1 for fortune`s best large workplaces in financial services and insurance list in 2021#li-hybrid
Disclaimer
This is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this positionAs with everything in life, things changeThe tasks and responsibilities can be changed, added to, removed, amended, deleted and modified at any time by the leadership group.
We are proud equal opportunity employers and committed to providing an inclusive environment based on mutual respect for all candidates and team membersEmployment decisions, including hiring decisions, are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal lawWe also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with state and federal law.
Colorado candidates onlyPursuant to the disclosure requirements of c.r.s§ 8-5-101, et seq., the minimum salary for this position for candidates in colorado is approximately fifty-three thousand dollarsThe position may also be eligible for an annual bonus and other employment-related benefitsThe information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the company, in its sole and exclusive discretion, deems appropriateThe company may determine during its review of the proposed minimum compensation and benefits provided for this position, that the compensation and benefits for such position should be reducedIn no event will the company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the positionThe company is a proud equal opportunity employer and committed to providing an inclusive environment based on mutual respect for all candidates and team members.
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