Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator – Denver, CO

Erostechnologies is hiring on behalf of a confidential client for a Senior Kafka Engineer / Administrator in Denver, Colorado. This long-term contract role is hybrid, with four days per week in the office. Local candidates only.

About the role

Lead the migration of production Kafka clusters from Cloudera and Confluent Platform to AWS Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (AWS MSK). Use Terraform and GitLab CI/CD to automate infrastructure while coordinating a low-disruption migration for production workloads.

Responsibilities and qualifications

• Bring at least 4 years of hands-on Apache Kafka production experience.
• Administer Cloudera and Confluent Platform environments.
• Provision and configure AWS MSK, including IAM authentication and networking.
• Plan and execute on-premises-to-AWS Kafka workload migrations.
• Build infrastructure automation with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.
• Configure Datadog monitoring, dashboards, and alerts.
• Apply deep knowledge of Kafka partitions, replication, ISR, offsets, and consumer groups.
• Use AWS services and capabilities including VPC, IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, Security Groups, and PrivateLink.
• Work confidently with Linux, Bash, Python, and networking.
• Communicate and coordinate effectively with producer and consumer application teams.
• Preferred: MirrorMaker 2, Confluent Replicator, or Cluster Linking; Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, or ksqlDB; Kafka Streams or Apache Flink; Kubernetes, EKS, or Strimzi; Confluent or AWS certifications; and experience in large enterprise or regulated environments.

Schedule and location

• Job type: Long-term contract
• Work arrangement: Hybrid, four days per week in the office
• Locations: Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO
• Candidate requirement: Local candidates only

How to apply

Share your updated resume. Please submit a senior-level profile; junior profiles are not being considered.