Position: Java Developer with KAFKA exp. Hybrid Job : Irving, TX onsite 2-3 days/ Weekly Need only locals Duration: Long Term contract on C2C Note: Open for C2C and all visas acceptable except OPT/CPT Required Skills: Java 8, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST/RESTful APIs, Strong on KAFKA, DevOps skills. JOB DUTIES: Working in developing & assisting logging solutions for various applications using Java, Logstash, and Kafka and monitoring/analyzing them using analytical tools like Elastic Search or Splunk. The candidate should be smart enough to pick technology fast and able to troubleshoot through systems. Person will have to make sure of QA integration tasks and also monitor once the systems go to production. The role also includes coordination tasks between teams located in onsite and offshore, to make sure logging framework standards are being followed. Also, should be able to study the log events, analyzes and interprets trends/patterns based on the security use case requirements. Be well adept with logging in a distributed micro service environment and have experience in dealing with large amounts of data. Working experience with Kafka/other message broker or queueing technologies to handle data flows and distribution, experience with log shippers like Logstash, FluentD, Beats, Splunk Forwarder, experience with streaming technologies MUST HAVE SKILLS: 6-10 years of JAVA experience Logging & Monitoring experience Hands on experience with message brokers like Kafka Hands on experience with ELK/Logstash and other log libraries like log4j, logback, log4net etc Knowledge about Log shipping in Container Systems like Kubernetes/RedHat OpenShift/ Amazon EKS Experience with ELK / Splunk is required