Kafka Operations Administrator

Seattle, WA, US • Posted 6 hours ago • Updated 6 hours ago

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Role: Kafka Operations Administrator
Location: Seattle WA/ Dallas TX
Duration: 6 months (can extend)

Kafka Operations Administrator

Must Have TechnicalFunctional Skills
Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience| managing| maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability| disaster recovery| fail-over and overall reliability
Kafka ecosystem tooling experience
Kafka Connect| Schema RegistryProficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards)| Prometheus| JMX metrics and SplunkAutomation and orchestration experience Terraform| Ansible| Helm| Kubernetes (EKSAKSGKE) or equivalent
Scripting and tooling experience
Python or Bash for automation and runbooks
Strong Linux system administration experience| including troubleshooting| automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.
Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments| ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.
Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms TLS| ACLs| RBAC| encryption at restin transitExperience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations| JVM tuning| Analysis| network and disk IO diagnostics and documenting incidentspostmortems
Experience in TCPIP| routing| switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations

Good to Have
Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experienceKnowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once| exactly-once)
Cloud-native securitycompliance experience (IAM| VPC| KMS| Security Groups)
Certifications Confluent Certified Administrator| AWSAzureGoogle Cloud Platform certifications
Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode| including set up| configuration| troubleshooting and cluster managementContainerization and Container Orchestration Tools
experience Docker| KubernetesExperience with CICD pipelines and Git-based workflows
Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg Avro| JSON)

Role and Responsibilities
Deploy| configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SL

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