Senior Kafka Administrator - Hybrid

Pacer Group; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 50,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacer Group is seeking a seasoned Kafka Administrator for a 12-month contract in Canada. The role is hybrid (2-3 days onsite) with a pay rate of CAD 55-60/hour.

You will deploy, configure, monitor, and upgrade enterprise Kafka environments, ensure high availability, and secure data pipelines using Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on Kafka experience, strong cluster and broker management skills, and a focus on scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Apache Kafka Administration with expertise in deploying, configuring, and managing enterprise Kafka environments.
• Deep experience in Kafka Cluster Installation, Configuration, management, broker setup, monitoring, maintenance and upgrades.
• Proficiency in Topic, Partition, and Replication Management for scalability and high availability.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect for scalable data integration pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Schema Registry for centralized schema management and compatibility enforcement.
• Expertise in Consumer Group Management, offset monitoring, load balancing, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience implementing Kafka Security including SSL/TLS, SASL, ACLs and encryption.

Skills

Kafka Administration

Kafka Cluster Setup

Topic & Partitions

Broker Administration

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Consumer Groups

Kafka Security

Job description

Pacer Group is seeking a seasoned Kafka Administrator for a 12-month contract in Canada. The role is hybrid (2-3 days onsite) with a pay rate of CAD 55-60/hour.

You will deploy, configure, monitor, and upgrade enterprise Kafka environments, ensure high availability, and secure data pipelines using Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of hands-on Kafka experience, strong cluster and broker management skills, and a focus on scalable, fault-tolerant architectures.