Kafka Administrator (Kafka Admin)

Jersey City, NJ, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
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Job Details

Skills

  • Access Control
  • Apache Kafka
  • Bash
  • Collaboration
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Extract
  • Transform
  • Load
  • Grafana
  • High Availability
  • Java
  • Jersey
  • Kerberos
  • Management
  • Onboarding
  • Optimization
  • Provisioning
  • Python
  • Recovery
  • Replication
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SSL
  • Scalability
  • Security Controls
  • Streaming
  • TLS
  • Terraform

Summary

Job Title: Kafka Administrator (Kafka Admin)
Location: Jersey City, NJ / Dallas, TX (Onsite) #Locals Duration: 6 Months Contract
Client: TCS / End Client TBD
Rate: $55
Interview: In-Person (Mandatory) Experience: 10+ Years
Local Candidates: Jersey City, NJ or Dallas, TX Only

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Kafka Administrator responsible for installing, configuring, maintaining, and monitoring Apache Kafka clusters. The ideal candidate will ensure high availability, security, scalability, and performance of Kafka environments while supporting enterprise-level data streaming platforms.

Required Skills

  • Apache Kafka Administration
  • Confluent Kafka
  • Kafka Brokers, Topics, Partitions & Replication
  • Zookeeper / KRaft
  • Kafka Connect
  • Schema Registry
  • Linux Administration
  • Prometheus & Grafana Monitoring
  • JMX Monitoring
  • SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos Authentication
  • ACL (Access Control Lists)
  • Python / Bash / Java Scripting
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes / OpenShift
  • Ansible / Terraform / Puppet
  • Disaster Recovery & High Availability
  • Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting

Responsibilities

  • Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Kafka clusters.
  • Manage Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, replication, and retention policies.
  • Monitor cluster health, consumer lag, producer latency, and broker performance.
  • Implement security controls including SSL/TLS, SASL, Kerberos, and ACLs.
  • Troubleshoot Kafka infrastructure and perform root cause analysis.
  • Design and manage disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
  • Automate provisioning, deployment, and monitoring activities.

Collaborate with application teams for Kafka onboarding and data pipeline optimization.

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  • Dice Id: 90773860
  • Position Id: 8989334
  • Posted 7 hours ago
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