Senior Kafka & IaC DevOps Lead

Comunidade Metodista; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Comunidade Metodista in Dallas, TX, is seeking a Lead Middleware Kafka Administrator with deep expertise in Kafka, IaC, and cloud automation. You will design, deploy, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters, build reusable IaC modules with Terraform and Ansible, and drive secure, scalable middleware solutions in a hybrid environment.

The role requires current Kafka administration with 8+ years, 5+ years in Terraform/Ansible, and strong scripting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Kafka administration experience.
• 5+ years with Terraform and Ansible for IaC.
• Strong scripting and cloud automation skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage highly available Kafka clusters.
• Develop and maintain Terraform/Ansible IaC modules.
• Implement cloud-based infrastructure on AWS/Azure.
• Automate provisioning and container orchestration with Kubernetes/Rancher.
• Design CI/CD pipelines integrating GitHub, Artifactory, Harness and Jenkins.
• Monitor performance and tune configurations for security and reliability.

Skills

Kafka administration

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Bash scripting

Python

Kubernetes

Cloud automation

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Harness

Jenkins

GitHub

Artifactory

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

Comunidade Metodista in Dallas, TX, is seeking a Lead Middleware Kafka Administrator with deep expertise in Kafka, IaC, and cloud automation. You will design, deploy, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters, build reusable IaC modules with Terraform and Ansible, and drive secure, scalable middleware solutions in a hybrid environment.

The role requires current Kafka administration with 8+ years, 5+ years in Terraform/Ansible, and strong scripting.