Job Description

Specialist Engineering – event-streaming and messaging platform
PCD300304

Job Location: Belfast/Sheffield (Hybrid, 3 days/month from office)
This role maps to a Specialist Engineering profile where knowledge of engineering and architecture combine to build strategies and roadmaps to align to our customers. The individual needs to be confident in understanding the general trends of the technologies in scope, how they are used by our customers, and anticipating how they need to evolve whilst meeting architecture standards. This specific role will be building and deploying event-streaming and messaging platform clusters on both onPrem and Public cloud container orchestration platform environments.
• Must be able to communicate on technical levels with Engineers and stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving an analytical skill.
• Experience operating in an infrastructure as code and automation first principles environment.
• Understand the software development life cycle process, specifically the standard engineering toolsets available to the team within CTO to design and develop software.

Key Responsibilities
• Work alongside product owners, technical leads and customers to strategize 3 - 5-year plans for streaming software.
• Produce and maintain product and platform architecture in line with the central architecture governance functions.
• Implement patterns that provide customers with robust deployment patterns meeting HSBC service levels tiers.
• Ensure that platform and product architectures remain cost effective.
• Standing up and administer On-Prem clusters.
• Provide expertise in event-streaming and messaging platform brokers, zookeepers, event-streaming and messaging platform connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest Proxy and event-streaming and messaging platform Control center.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on event-streaming and messaging platform connect using schema registry in a very high volume.
• Provide administration and operations of the event-streaming and messaging platform platform – provisioning, access lists Kerberos and SSL configurations.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience working on event-streaming and messaging platform connectors such as MQ connectors, Elastic Search connectors, JDBC connectors, File stream connector, JMS source connectors, Tasks, Workers, converters, Transforms.
• Provide expertise and hands on experience on custom connectors using the event-streaming and messaging platform core concepts and API.
• Involve in design and capacity review meetings to provide suggestions in event-streaming and messaging platform usage.
• Participate in work planning and estimation to 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.
• Create stubs for producers, consumers, and consumer groups for helping onboard applications from different languages/platforms.
• Use automation tools like provisioning using containerisation tooling, source-control and CI/CD tooling, and source-control and CI/CD tooling.
• Setting up security on event-streaming and messaging platform, Monitor, prevent and troubleshoot security-related issues.
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
Messaging technologies -Apache event-streaming and messaging platform, Confluent event-streaming and messaging platform
DevOps toolsets – source-control and CI/CD tooling, enterprise workflow platform, enterprise workflow platform, source-control and CI/CD tooling
Automation – Ansible, Puppet
Monitoring -Observability tools such as monitoring and observability tooling

Benefits Include (not limited to):
Competitive compensation/Hybrid working/Immediate start available
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