$105,800 – $176,300
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What this role is
This role involves designing and maintaining Kafka-based data pipelines and messaging infrastructure to handle real-time data processing across the organization. It suits someone with hands-on Kafka systems administration experience who can manage complex cluster operations, implement security controls, and automate infrastructure tasks in hybrid work.
Our summary, not Cigna’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon EC2
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Ansible
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Zookeeper
- LDAP
- Microsoft Azure
- Okta
- Shell Scripting
- SSL/TLS
- Terraform
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- 3 years of experience in Kafka systems administration
- Kafka cluster build including design and infrastructure planning
- High Availability and Disaster Recovery implementation
- Wire encryption using SSL and SASL/LDAP authentication
- Kafka authorization using ACLs
- Kafka Connect cluster and connector deployment
- Schema and schema registry experience
- Kafka cluster maintenance including upgrades and performance tuning
- AWS or Azure cloud support
- EC2, EBS, and security group provisioning
- Networking and load balancing knowledge
- Shell scripting, Ansible, and Terraform automation
Nice to have
- Researching and proof-of-concept testing of new Kafka features
- Okta integration experience