Kafka Admin

IMR Soft LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IMR Soft LLC is seeking a Kafka Administrator to manage and optimize Kafka clusters within Confluent Cloud environments. The role focuses on deployment, monitoring, security, and automation to ensure high availability and efficient data movement across the system.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Terraform, Git, Kubernetes, and AWS, plus familiarity with Unix scripting and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent).
• Experience administering Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud/Platform.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture, NoSQL DB (MongoDB preferred), DevOps and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters.
• Monitor Kafka cluster performance, usage, and health.
• Configure and tune Kafka parameters to optimize performance.
• Deploy resources using Terraform in Confluent Cloud.
• Implement security measures to protect Kafka clusters.
• Develop automation scripts for routine tasks and monitoring.
• Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot Kafka issues.
• Perform capacity planning and scaling of clusters.
• Ensure Kafka availability and fault tolerance.
• Adopt best practices for Kafka operations and stay updated.

Skills

Kafka admin

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

AWS cloud

Unix

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

AWS Cloud

Job description

Job Description\\Overview:

A Kafka Administrator manages Kafka cluster environments, which includes configuring, deploying, monitoring, managing, and supporting the clusters. Confluent Kafka Administration tools are part of the Confluent Platform ecosystem, which helps organizations build and manage event streaming applications using Kafka. These tools can simplify cluster management, improve security, monitor performance, and support efficient data movement.

Location: St. Louis, MO(Remote)

6+ months

Details Of The Role

Job Title:

Kafka Administrator

Job Description\\Overview:

A Kafka Administrator manages Kafka cluster environments, which includes configuring, deploying, monitoring, managing, and supporting the clusters. Confluent Kafka Administration tools are part of the Confluent Platform ecosystem, which helps organizations build and manage event streaming applications using Kafka. These tools can simplify cluster management, improve security, monitor performance, and support efficient data movement.

Primary Skillset

• Kafka admin, Confluent Kafka
• Terraform, Git and Kubernetes
• AWS cloud.

Secondary Skillset

• Unix & Shell Scripts

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Confluent Cloud Kafka clusters.
• Monitor Kafka cluster performance, usage, and overall health.
• Configure and fine-tune Kafka parameters to optimize performance.
• Deploying resources using terraform in confluent cloud.
• Implement security measures to protect Kafka clusters.
• Develop automation scripts for routine tasks and monitoring.
• Collaborate with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve Kafka-related issues.
• Perform capacity planning and expansion of Kafka clusters.
• Ensure Kafka clusters are highly available and fault tolerant.
• Implement best practices for Kafka cluster management and operations.
• Stay updated with the latest Kafka features, enhancements, and best practices.

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Additional Qualities

• Apache Kafka Administration
• Confluent Cloud/Platform Administration
• Event Driven Architecture, Event Streaming ( Kafka Preferred), NoSQL DB( Mongo DB Preferred), Devops, CI/CD.

Top 3 must have hard Skills Stack Ranked by importance :

• Kafka Administration
• AWS Experience
• Event Driven Architecture
• Monitoring/Alerting and Logging tools preferably Dynatrace and Splunk
• Devops/CI/CD
• Cloud Engineering