Senior Kafka Engineer: Cloud Migration & Production Ops

Capgemini; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking a senior Kafka Engineer/Administrator to own day-to-day Kafka administration across on-premises and cloud environments, lead the migration to AWS MSK, and coordinate with producer/consumer teams for a smooth cutover.

The role requires hands-on experience with Cloudera, Confluent Platform, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD, plus strong monitoring via Datadog and robust security practices. This is a contract-based, on-site opportunity in St. Louis, MO.

Qualifications

• 5+ years data/platform/infrastructure engineering experience.
• 4+ years operating Apache Kafka in production.
• Hands-on admin experience with Cloudera and Confluent.
• Experience migrating Kafka workloads to cloud (AWS MSK).
• Terraform and GitLab CI/CD for automation.
• Datadog monitoring, dashboards, and alerting.
• Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Kafka Administration across On-Prem and Cloud (Cloudera/Confluent and AWS MSK).
• Manage topics, partitions, replication, retention, quotas, ACLs, consumer groups.
• Tune brokers, producers, and consumers for throughput and latency.
• Handle patching, upgrades, capacity planning, health/troubleshooting.
• Configure security: TLS/SSL, SASL, IAM for MSK, RBAC/ACLs, encryption.
• Migrate clusters/workloads to AWS MSK; design cutover strategies.
• Build and maintain Kafka/MSK infra with Terraform.
• CI/CD via GitLab; GitOps for topic/ACL/cluster configs.
• Observability: Datadog dashboards, alerts; define SLAs/SLOs.

Skills

Kafka administration

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Datadog monitoring

AWS MSK

Cloudera/Confluent

Python Bash scripting

Tools

Terraform

GitLab

Datadog

AWS MSK

Cloudera

Confluent Platform

Kubernetes

Job description

Tundra Technical Solutions is seeking a senior Kafka Engineer/Administrator to own day-to-day Kafka administration across on-premises and cloud environments, lead the migration to AWS MSK, and coordinate with producer/consumer teams for a smooth cutover.

The role requires hands-on experience with Cloudera, Confluent Platform, Terraform, and GitLab CI/CD, plus strong monitoring via Datadog and robust security practices. This is a contract-based, on-site opportunity in St. Louis, MO.