Kafka Admin

SFE; Denver (CO); In loco; USD 96.000 - 165.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

SFE is seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator for a long-term contract in Denver, CO with onsite work. You will design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters, focusing on Confluent Platform, and will handle upgrades, monitoring, and DR planning.

Responsibilities include managing topics, partitions, retention, consuming groups, and integrating Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Replicator. Strong Linux, scripting, and observability skills are required.

Competenze

• Experience administering Kafka in production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, partitions, replication, and retention.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Experience with MirrorMaker or Confluent Replicator.
• Strong Linux, networking, and performance troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting.
• Hands-on monitoring and observability experience using Datadog, Grafana, or JMX tools.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, and incident management.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.

Mansioni

• Design, deploy, and support highly available Kafka clusters.
• Manage topics, partitions, retention policies, and consumer groups.
• Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, and cluster maintenance.
• Administer Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Replicator, and REST Proxy.
• Optimize Kafka performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Execute cluster hardware refresh and migration activities.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery processes.
• Create operational runbooks, standards, and technical documentation.
• Support incident response and platform troubleshooting.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.

Conoscenze

Kafka Admin

Confluent

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Linux Admin

Automation & Scripting

Monitoring & Observability

Disaster Recovery

Incident Management

Strumenti

Datadog

Grafana

JMX

Descrizione del lavoro

I came across your profile and thought you'd be a great fit for a Kafka Administrator contract role.

Section

Details

Job Title

Kafka Administrator

Job Type

Contract

Client Location

Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO

Work Arrangement

Onsite (Face-to-Face Interview Required)

Duration

Long-Term Contract

Client

Telecom Domain

MUST HAVE Skills

• Kafka Administration (Production Environment)
• Confluent
• Kafka Connect & Schema Registry
• Linux Administration
• Automation & Scripting
• Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Datadog, JMX)
• Disaster Recovery & Incident Management

Job Summary

Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator to manage and enhance enterprise event-streaming platforms with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. The role involves Kafka cluster administration, platform reliability, hardware refresh initiatives, automation, performance optimization, monitoring, and operational documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support highly available Kafka clusters.
• Manage topics, partitions, retention policies, and consumer groups.
• Perform Kafka upgrades, patching, migrations, and cluster maintenance.
• Administer Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Replicator, and REST Proxy.
• Optimize Kafka performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Execute cluster hardware refresh and migration activities.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery processes.
• Create operational runbooks, standards, and technical documentation.
• Support incident response and platform troubleshooting.
• Conduct knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.

Required Qualifications

• Experience administering Kafka in production environments.
• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture, partitions, replication, and retention.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Experience with MirrorMaker or Confluent Replicator.
• Strong Linux, networking, and performance troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with automation and scripting.
• Hands-on monitoring and observability experience using Datadog, Grafana, or JMX tools.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, high availability, and incident management.
• Strong documentation and knowledge-sharing skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Apache Kafka environments.
• Experience with AWS MSK.
• Experience with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB.
• Experience leading large-scale cluster migrations or hardware refresh projects.
• Experience supporting multi-region Kafka deployments.