Senior Kafka Administrator

Tasks

• Manage and optimize an on-premises event streaming platform
• Lead hardware refresh initiatives
• Strengthen platform reliability through automation and DevOps practices
• Hardware refresh planning, cluster implementation and validation, performance benchmarks, monitoring configuration, DR playbooks, and comprehensive operational documentation

Requirements

• 5+ Years in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps
• 4+ Years of Production Kafka Administration
• Strong hands-on experience with Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka
• Kafka cluster administration, upgrades, patching, migrations, and performance tuning
• Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention, compaction, and consumer rebalancing
• Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker / Confluent Replicator
• Linux, networking (TCP/DNS), scripting, and automation
• Monitoring and observability using Datadog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation
• Disaster recovery, multi-region architecture, and incident management
• Capacity planning, throughput benchmarking, and cluster sizing
• Technical documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer
• Preferred: AWS MSK operations and integration
• Preferred: On-premises hardware refreshes and major cluster migrations with minimal downtime
• Preferred: Experience with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB

How to apply

• Share your updated resume, current location, visa status, and contact details by email

Location

• Denver, CO / St. Louis, MO