Senior Kafka Administrator

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Job Title

Senior Kafka Administrator

Job Type

Contract

Client Location

Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO

Work Arrangement

On site

Duration

Long Term

Pay Rate / Salary

$55/hr on W2

Job Summary

Minimum Qualifications

5+ 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

Key Responsibilities

Contract Deliverables

Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register

Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks

Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.

Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.

Required Qualifications

Contract Deliverables

Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register

Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks

Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.

Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.