Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices Devops

Artech LLCEnglewood, CO

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Description: POC: Sam Chavez

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Job Title: Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps -- Kafka AdminWork Location & Reporting Address: Denver, CO 80111 or St Louis, MO 63131 (Onsite)Contract duration: 12MAX VENDOR RATE: - per hour maxTarget Start Date: 13 Mar 2026Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes

Must Have Skills:Must have deep, handson experience running Kafka in largescale production environments, including cluster operations, upgrades, patches, and migrations.Should understand Kafka internals such as partitions, replication, retention/compaction, and rebalance strategies.o Kafka Administrationo Platform / SRE / DevOps Experienceo Kafka Ecosystem Toolso Linux + Networkingo Automation / Scriptingo Monitoring / Observabilityo Disaster Recovery

Nice to Have Skills:AWS MSK / Apache Kafka Cloud: Experience with MSK operations and cloudaligned Kafka environments.Helpful for crossenvironment consistency between onprem and cloud.Hardware Refresh Experience: Prior work leading Kafka hardware refreshes or cluster rebuilds.

Detailed Job Description:

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:Were 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.

Kafka Platform Support Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, 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, MirrorMaker/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.

Contract DeliverablesHardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk registerImplement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarksOperational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.

Minimum Qualifications5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps; 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies.Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator.Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis.Proficiency in automation/scripting.Monitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation.Experience with DR, multi-region design, and incident management.Proven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation

Preferred QualificationsExperience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration.Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.

Minimum Years of Experience:5+ years

Certifications Needed:None

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