Kafka Platform Engineer - Onsite (Denver/St. Louis)

Holistic Partners, Inc; Englewood (CO); Sur place; USD 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Holistic Partners, Inc. seeks an experienced Kafka platform administrator for onsite roles in Englewood, CO and Maryland Heights, MO. You will lead production operations of Apache Kafka/Confluent, design scalable architectures, and drive upgrades, security governance, and reliability initiatives.

The role requires strong scripting and CI/CD experience and on‑call participation. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of production Kafka management, plus hands‑on experience with Terraform, Ansible, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on production administration of Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform for 3+ years.
• Experience with cluster design, capacity planning, upgrades, patching and performance tuning.
• Strong knowledge of TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC, Schema Registry, and audit controls.

Responsabilités

• Manage and optimize Kafka/Confluent clusters including failover and DR testing.
• Troubleshoot broker availability, replication, partitioning, rebalances and consumer lag.
• Automate platform operations with Terraform, Ansible and CI/CD tooling.
• Design HA architectures, cross‑cluster replication and backup strategies.
• Ensure security governance and auditing for Kafka deployments.
• Maintain observability using Prometheus, Grafana or similar tooling.
• Provide leadership during incidents and produce RCA documentation.
• Collaborate onsite and participate in on‑call rotations.

Connaissances

Kafka admin

Terraform

Ansible

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

On-call support

Kubernetes

Kafka security

Observability

Documentation

Outils

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo CD

OpenShift

Description du poste

Holistic Partners, Inc. seeks an experienced Kafka platform administrator for onsite roles in Englewood, CO and Maryland Heights, MO. You will lead production operations of Apache Kafka/Confluent, design scalable architectures, and drive upgrades, security governance, and reliability initiatives.

The role requires strong scripting and CI/CD experience and on‑call participation. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of production Kafka management, plus hands‑on experience with Terraform, Ansible, and