Sr. Kafka Admin with Ansible

Woodlawn, MD - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18-09-2025

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Sr. Kafka Admin with Ansible

Onsite in Woodlawn MD

Key Required Skills

Kafka Architecture Ansible Automation RHEL/Linux Administration Scripting (Bash Shell Python) Availability Monitoring / Triage (Splunk Dynatrace Prometheus).

Position Description

Architect design develop and implement next-generation data streaming and event-based architecture / platform using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies:
Data Streaming Event Driven Architecture Event Processing Frameworks
DevOps (Jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Docker SonarQube)
Infrastructure-as-Code and Configuration-as-Code (Ansible Terraform / CloudFormation Scripting)
Administer Kafka including automating installing migrating upgrading deploying troubleshooting and configuring on Linux.
Provide expertise in one or more of these areas: Kafka administration event-driven architecture automation application integration monitoring and alerting security business process management/business rules processing CI/CD pipeline and containerization or data ingestion/data modeling.
Investigate repair and actively ensure business continuity regardless of impacted component: Kafka Platform business logic middleware networking CI/CD pipeline or database (PL/SQL and Data Modeling).
Brief management customer team or vendors using written or oral skills at appropriate technical level for audience
All other duties as assigned or directed

Detailed Skills Requirements

FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESS (Basic Qualifications)
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or a related field.
Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience
8 years of combined experience with Site Reliability Engineering providing DevOps support and/or RHEL administration for mission-critical platforms ideally Kafka.
4 years of combined experience with Kafka (Confluent Kafka Apache Kafka Amazon MSK)
4 years of experience with Ansible automation.

FACTORS TO HELP YOU SHINE (Required Skills)
These skills will help you succeed in this position:
Strong experience with Ansible Automation and authoring playbooks and roles for installing maintaining or upgrading platforms
Solid experience using version control software such as Git/Bitbucket including peer reviewing Ansible playbooks
Hands-on experience administrating Kafka platform (Confluent Kafka Apache Kafka Amazon MSK) via Ansible playbooks or other automation.
Understanding of Kafka architecture including partition strategy replication transactions tiered storage and disaster recovery strategies.
Strong experience in automating tasks with scripting languages like Bash Shell or Python
Solid foundation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration
Basic networking skills
Solid experience triaging and monitoring complex issues outages and incidents
Experience with integrating/maintaining various 3rd party tools like ZooKeeper Flink Pinot Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) using Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes and Docker containers
Experience working on Agile projects and understanding Agile terminology.

HOW TO STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD (Desired Skills)
Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:
Preferred Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
Practical experience with event-driven applications and at least one event processing framework such as Kafka Streams Apache Flink or ksqlDB.
Understanding of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and experience applying DDD patterns in software development.
Experience working with Kafka connectors and/or supporting operation of the Kafka Connect API
Experience with Avro / JSON data serialization and schema governance with Confluent Schema Registry.
Preferred experience with AWS cloud technologies or other cloud providers; AWS cloud certifications.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation / Terraform Scripting)
Solid knowledge of relational databases (PostgreSQL DB2 or Oracle) NoSQL databases (MongoDB Cassandra DynamoDB) SQL or/and ORM technologies (JPA2 Hibernate or Spring JPA)
Knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA)

Education

Bachelors Degree with 7 years of experience

Best Regards