Job Title : Kafka Admin/Engineer - Automation
Location: Tampa, FL / Jersey City, NJ - onsite
Duration: 6 months Contract
JD:
Kafka Administrator with automation focus manages| secures| and scales high-availability
Kafka clusters (on-prem cloud) using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Ansible, Terraform and GitOps to minimize manual work.
They specialize in deploying Kafka on Kubernetes (CFK)| automating topic partition management| monitoring performance with Prometheus, Grafana| and implementing security (ACLs RBAC).
Responsibilities :
Automation Tasks
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) Use Ansible playbooks and Python scripts to automate Kafka installation| broker configuration| upgrades| and patching.
Implement Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and GitOps workflows (Argo CD, Jenkins) for continuous deployment.
Cluster Management Deployment Deploy and manage Confluent Platform using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) on OpenShift ,Kubernetes.
Manage Kraft (Kafka Raft) mode| topics| partitions| and replication factors to ensure high availability.
Performance Tuning Utilize Prometheus| Grafana| and Confluent Control Center for proactive monitoring of broker health| consumer lag| and producer latency.
Security ,Compliance Implement and automate security protocols including SASL|SSL| RBAC| ACLs| and certificate management.
Kafka Connect Schema Registry Configure| manage| and automate the deployment of Kafka Connectors (e.g.| S3| JDBC| Snowflake) and manage data governance via Confluent Schema Registry.
Disaster Recovery Set up and manage Active-Passive clusters and Cluster Link for multi-region replication.
Expertise 10 years in Apache Kafka Confluent Kafka administration.
Independent lead Performer Automation Tools Ansible| Terraform| GitOps| Shell scripting| Python. Infrastructure Kubernetes (OpenShift)| Linux, Monitoring Prometheus| Grafana| JMX.
Networking Security TLS| Kerberos| SASL| RBAC
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