Senior Kafka & Confluent Admin – On-Prem, 6-Month

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC; Phoenix (AZ); Sur place; USD 97 000 - 138 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform. You will lead hardware refresh planning, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps practices across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response.

Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for cross-environment alignment, with comprehensive documentation and runbooks required for deliverables.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps.
• 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.

Responsabilités

• Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, or managed services).
• Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies.
• Own upgrades, patches, and migrations.
• Implement and manage Kafka components: Connect, Schema Registry, Replicator, REST Proxy; knowledge of Streams/ksqlDB is a plus.
• Performance tuning, throughput testing, and benchmarking.
• Capacity planning and cluster right-sizing.

Connaissances

Kafka administration

SRE/DevOps

Linux fundamentals

Automation scripting

Monitoring (DataDog Grafana)

DR and multi-region design

Outils

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator

REST Proxy

Kafka Streams/ksqlDB

Description du poste

MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES LLC is seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform. You will lead hardware refresh planning, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps practices across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response.

Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for cross-environment alignment, with comprehensive documentation and runbooks required for deliverables.