Kafka Automation Engineer — Ansible & CI/CD

First Soft Solutions LLC; Woodlawn (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

First Soft Solutions LLC in Maryland is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale automation across Linux, Windows, and cloud platforms. You will implement Confluent Kafka administration, Ansible playbooks, and CI/CD integrations, ensuring robust, idempotent workflows in production.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in Python, Bash, Kafka security (SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, MDS), and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience with Confluent Kafka administration and production environments.
• Hands-on Ansible automation including playbooks, roles, modules, Tower/AWX, and Vault.
• Proficient in Python, Bash, Linux, systemd, SELinux, networking.
• Experience securing Kafka with SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, and MDS.
• Familiar with Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Git.
• Ability to automate mixed Linux/Windows/cloud infra and create enterprise-grade workflows.

Skills

Python

Bash

Linux

systemd

SELinux

Networking

RBAC

MDS

Kafka security

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Confluent Kafka

Ansible

Tower/AWX

Vault

Prometheus

Thanos

Grafana

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

First Soft Solutions LLC in Maryland is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to own and scale automation across Linux, Windows, and cloud platforms. You will implement Confluent Kafka administration, Ansible playbooks, and CI/CD integrations, ensuring robust, idempotent workflows in production.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in Python, Bash, Kafka security (SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, MDS), and monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.