Kafka Administrator with Automation - W2 Only

Title                                      : Kafka Administrator with Automation

Location                              : Tampa, FL / Jersey City, NJ

Duration                             : 12+ months

Job Description:

Relevant Experience (in Yrs.): 10 +

·         Automate Kafka deployment, upgrades, patching, and broker configuration using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and Shell scripting

·         Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and GitOps workflows (e.g., ArgoCD, Jenkins)

·         Deploy and manage Kafka on Kubernetes/OpenShift using Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK)

·         Manage KRaft mode, topics, partitions, and replication for high availability

·         Monitor performance using Prometheus, Grafana, and Confluent Control Center

·         Implement security: TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, RBAC, ACLs, and certificate management

·         Configure and automate Kafka Connect (S3, JDBC, Snowflake connectors) and Schema Registry

·         Set up disaster recovery (Active-Passive clusters, Cluster Linking, multi-region replication)

Must Skills:

·         Kafka/Confluent administration

·         Automation (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps)

·         Kubernetes/OpenShift and Linux administration

·         Monitoring & performance tuning (Prometheus, Grafana, JMX)             

·         networking and Kafka security

Thanks & regards, 

Rishitha Mummineni.

Technical Recruiter | ASCII Group, LLC

Email:  - Desk -  

38345 W. 10 Mile Rd, Ste.#365; Farmington, MI  48335 

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