Senior Kafka Administrator

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Skills

  • Debugging
  • Ansible
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Git
  • Jenkins
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Scripting
  • Linux Administration
  • Security-Enhanced Linux
  • Computer Networking
  • SSL
  • TLS
  • RBAC
  • MDS
  • Grafana
  • Apache Kafka
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud Computing
  • Workflow

Summary

Senior Kafka Administrator - Ansible

Location: Maryland (MD) / Onsite

Job Summary:

Seeking a Senior Kafka Administrator with strong Ansible automation expertise to administer production Confluent Kafka environments, automate deployments and operations, maintain observability, and ensure secure and reliable distributed systems.

Key Skills:

  • Strong production experience with Confluent Kafka
  • Extensive Ansible experience playbooks, roles, modules, debugging, and automation
  • Experience with Ansible Tower/AWX and Ansible Vault
  • Design idempotent and scalable automation across multiple environments
  • CI/CD, Git, and Jenkins integration
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting
  • Advanced Linux administration SELinux, systemd, permissions, networking
  • Kafka security: SSL/TLS, SASL, RBAC, MDS
  • Monitoring with Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana
  • Kafka topics, schemas, connectors, and performance troubleshooting
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and hybrid/cloud environments
  • Ability to convert manual processes into automated workflows and optimize environments
  • Ability to support and train teams on automation best practices

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.
  • Dice Id: 10236892
  • Position Id: OOJ - 5688-4689-1787695251
  • Posted 1 day ago
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