Senior Kafka Platform Lead Consultant - Contract

Ampcus, Inc; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly experienced Kafka-focused professional to join our team in a contract role. The candidate will lead platform maintenance, drive migrations and upgrades, and collaborate with product teams on new releases.

This position requires Visa-independent candidates and a minimum of 10 years in relevant fields. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, tuning alerts, and managing Kafka components with CI/CD pipelines, plus implementing observability using DataDog and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Kafka or related field.
• No certification required.
• Visa independent candidates only.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Kafka distribution vendors for support on Kafka issues.
• Set up and tune alerts for critical events (broker failures, data loss).
• Troubleshoot Kafka connectivity, consumer lag, and serialization errors.
• Use observability tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Conduktor) for service health.
• Understand Kafka components (Replicator, Connector, Zookeeper, KSQL) and use cases.
• Leverage DevSecOps (CI/CD) to perform admin activities using Terraform.
• Collate configurations of Kafka users, ACLs, topics, connectors, and apps.

Skills

Confluent Kafka

Client facing role

Team handling skills

Tools

Confluent Platform

Confluent Cloud

DataDog

Prometheus

Conduktor

Terraform

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is seeking a highly experienced Kafka-focused professional to join our team in a contract role. The candidate will lead platform maintenance, drive migrations and upgrades, and collaborate with product teams on new releases.

This position requires Visa-independent candidates and a minimum of 10 years in relevant fields. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, tuning alerts, and managing Kafka components with CI/CD pipelines, plus implementing observability using DataDog and