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Expedite Talent SolutionsEnglewood, CO

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Description: POC: Raju

Job Details:Job title: Senior Kafka Devops AdministratorWork Location with Zip code: Englewood, CO 80111Duration of the project: 6 Months

This role requires any travel (Yes/No): NOPlease confirm if this would be onsite from day one OR Initial remote for 2-3 months, and then expect the candidate to work from the office OR 100% Remote: Onsite from day oneIs this a 100% remote role? NOVendor rate range: Minimum years of experience required: 5-8 YearsWould you require the candidates to meet you for an in-person interview?: Video/Virtual InterviewEducation Qualification required: BE

Must have skills:Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategiesHands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent ReplicatorStrong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysisProficiency in automation/scriptingMonitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregationExperience with DR, multi-region design, and incident managementProven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation

Good to Have SkillsExperience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integrationExperience executing hardware refreshes or major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime

Detailed Job Description:5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps;4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.We re seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform.You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response.Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross environment alignment.Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK).Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost.Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Mirror Maker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus.Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.Hardware refresh planning, migration/cutover strategy, monitoring, backup/restore and DR playbooks, knowledge transfer and documentation handoff.

Minimum years of experience: 5-8 yearsEducation: Bachelor's or Master of Engineering

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