Kafka Operations Administrator
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
7 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Request ID: 57074-1
Start/End Dates: 3/31/2026 - 9/30/2026
Tax Work Location: US Default
Job Title: Information TechnologyUSA - USADeveloper
Job Description: **Please strictly adhere to the following resume naming convention:
ALL CAPS NO SPACES B/T UNDERSCORES
PTNUSGBAMSR
EQIDCandidateBeelineID
i.e. PTNUS9999999SKIPJOHNSON0413
MSP Owner: Cameran Gamble
Location: Seattle WA/ Dallas TX
Duration: 6 months (can extend)
GBaMS ReqID:
MUST BE US CITIZEN
ITAR
ONLY OPEN TO W2 EMPLOYEES
NOT OPEN TO 1099 OR C2C
Rate: $70-$77
Hibrid is highly preferred
Can be open to remote for well qualifyed candidates
Seattle is highly preferred
Open to Dallas TX & St. Louis
Role: Kafka Operations Administrator
Kafka Operations Administrator
Must Have TechnicalFunctional Skills
Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience managing maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability disaster recovery fail-over and overall reliability
Kafka ecosystem tooling experience
Kafka Connect Schema RegistryProficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards) Prometheus JMX metrics and SplunkAutomation and orchestration experience Terraform Ansible Helm Kubernetes (EKSAKSGKE) or equivalent
Scripting and tooling experience
Python or Bash for automation and runbooks
Strong Linux system administration experience including troubleshooting automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.
Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.
Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms TLS ACLs RBAC encryption at restin transitExperience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations JVM tuning GC Analysis network and disk IO diagnostics and documenting incidentspostmortems
Experience in TCPIP routing switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations
Good to Have
Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experienceKnowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once exactly-once)
Cloud-native securitycompliance experience (IAM VPC KMS Security Groups)
Certifications Confluent Certified Administrator AWSAzureGCP certifications
Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode including set up configuration troubleshooting and cluster managementContainerization and Container Orchestration Tools
experience Docker KubernetesExperience with CICD pipelines and Git-based workflows
Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg Avro JSON)
Role and Responsibilities
Deploy configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SL
Release Comments:
Please use the below link to begin submitting Candidates.
Start/End Dates: 3/31/2026 - 9/30/2026
Tax Work Location: US Default
Job Title: Information TechnologyUSA - USADeveloper
Job Description: **Please strictly adhere to the following resume naming convention:
ALL CAPS NO SPACES B/T UNDERSCORES
PTNUSGBAMSR
EQIDCandidateBeelineID
i.e. PTNUS9999999SKIPJOHNSON0413
MSP Owner: Cameran Gamble
Location: Seattle WA/ Dallas TX
Duration: 6 months (can extend)
GBaMS ReqID:
MUST BE US CITIZEN
ITAR
ONLY OPEN TO W2 EMPLOYEES
NOT OPEN TO 1099 OR C2C
Rate: $70-$77
Hibrid is highly preferred
Can be open to remote for well qualifyed candidates
Seattle is highly preferred
Open to Dallas TX & St. Louis
Role: Kafka Operations Administrator
Kafka Operations Administrator
Must Have TechnicalFunctional Skills
Production-grade Apache Kafka operations experience managing maintaining and upgrading Kafka clusters in production environments with a focus on high availability disaster recovery fail-over and overall reliability
Kafka ecosystem tooling experience
Kafka Connect Schema RegistryProficiency in installing and configuring monitoring systems using Grafana (building dashboards) Prometheus JMX metrics and SplunkAutomation and orchestration experience Terraform Ansible Helm Kubernetes (EKSAKSGKE) or equivalent
Scripting and tooling experience
Python or Bash for automation and runbooks
Strong Linux system administration experience including troubleshooting automation and scripting for efficient infrastructure management.
Knowledge of networking concepts across on-prem VMs and cloud environments ensuring seamless integration and communication between services.
Strong understanding of topic management and security best practices for streaming platforms TLS ACLs RBAC encryption at restin transitExperience participating in 24x7 on-call rotations JVM tuning GC Analysis network and disk IO diagnostics and documenting incidentspostmortems
Experience in TCPIP routing switching and firewall configurations relevant to Kafka operations
Good to Have
Deep Kafka performance tuning and capacity planning experienceKnowledge of message delivery semantics and guarantees (at-least-once exactly-once)
Cloud-native securitycompliance experience (IAM VPC KMS Security Groups)
Certifications Confluent Certified Administrator AWSAzureGCP certifications
Experience with Apache Kafka in KRaft mode including set up configuration troubleshooting and cluster managementContainerization and Container Orchestration Tools
experience Docker KubernetesExperience with CICD pipelines and Git-based workflows
Experience building custom Kafka connect libraries and understanding of data serialization formats (eg Avro JSON)
Role and Responsibilities
Deploy configure and manage Kafka clusters and related services to meet SL
Release Comments:
Please use the below link to begin submitting Candidates.
Key Skills
- Six Sigma
- Lean
- Management Experience
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Outlook
- Analysis Skills
- Warehouse Management System
- Operations Management
- Kaizen
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
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