Senior Kafka DevOps Engineer — High Availability

Veriipro; Englewood (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Veriipro in Colorado, Englewood seeks a Senior Kafka DevOps Administrator to manage enterprise‑scale Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka environments. You will operate highly available on‑premises Kafka clusters, drive hardware refreshes, and improve reliability, automation, and DR readiness.

Experience with AWS MSK is desirable for hybrid deployments. You will design, deploy, and optimize Kafka clusters, lead migrations, configure topics, and manage the ecosystem (Connect, Schema Registry,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Systems Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka in large-scale prod environments.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention, ISR, consumer group rebalance.
• Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, Confluent Replicator.
• Linux admin, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing), performance troubleshooting.
• Automation and scripting for infra management.
• Monitoring/observability with DataDog, Grafana, JMX exporters, logging platforms.
• Disaster recovery, multi-region architectures, incident management processes.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and optimize highly available Kafka clusters on‑prem and cloud.
• Lead upgrades, hardware refreshes, migrations, and cutover with minimal downtime.
• Manage topics, partitions, replication, retention, quotas, and consumer groups.
• Administer Kafka ecosystem: Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, Replicator, REST Proxy.
• Performance tuning, capacity planning, benchmarking, and right-sizing clusters.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and ops tasks via scripting.
• Monitor infrastructure using DataDog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and logs.
• Develop DR strategies, backup/restore procedures, multi‑region deployments, and incident response.
• Troubleshoot Linux, networking, and Kafka issues to maximize availability.

Skills

Systems Engineering

DevOps

SRE

Kafka

Linux

Networking

Automation/Scripting

Monitoring

Education

Bachelors/Masters in Engineering

Tools

DataDog

Grafana

JMX exporters

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

MirrorMaker

Confluent Replicator

Job description

Veriipro in Colorado, Englewood seeks a Senior Kafka DevOps Administrator to manage enterprise‑scale Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka environments. You will operate highly available on‑premises Kafka clusters, drive hardware refreshes, and improve reliability, automation, and DR readiness.

Experience with AWS MSK is desirable for hybrid deployments. You will design, deploy, and optimize Kafka clusters, lead migrations, configure topics, and manage the ecosystem (Connect, Schema Registry,