Senior Apache NiFi Administrator

Role: Senior Apache NiFi Administrator

Location: Charlotte NC 28273 and St. Louis, MO (Either location 4 days work from office)

Contract duration: 12months

Job Details:

We are seeking a Senior Apache NiFi Administrator with strong hands-on expertise in Apache NiFi administration, AWS cloud administration and Terraform. This role will support enterprise data-flow platforms in production while also contributing to new environment builds, cloud modernization, and platform migration initiatives.

The ideal candidate brings deep operational experience supporting NiFi in complex enterprise environments, with a strong focus on platform reliability, performance, security, high availability, and incident response. This individual must also have proven experience deploying and supporting migration efforts from on-prem infrastructure to cloud-based environments.

Key Responsibilities

Administer, support, and maintain Apache NiFi clusters in enterprise production environments

Manage NiFi flows, processors, queues, templates, parameter contexts, and controller services

Perform installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management of NiFi platforms

Monitor platform health, throughput, latency, failures, and overall system performance

Troubleshoot flow failures, back-pressure issues, cluster instability, and node failures

Manage NiFi security, including TLS/SSL, certificates, access controls, users, and policies

Perform root cause analysis and lead resolution of platform incidents and production issues

Ensure high availability, recoverability, node health, and data integrity across environments

Participate in new environment builds

Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, SOPs, and support procedures

Required Qualifications

Strong hands-knowledge on administering and supporting Unix platforms

Apache NiFi Administration

5+ years of hands-on experience administering and supporting Apache NiFi in enterprise environments

Strong experience with NiFi clusters, flows, processors, queues, controller services, upgrades, and configuration management

Proven ability to troubleshoot performance issues, flow failures, back-pressure, and node-level incidents

Experience managing NiFi security, including certificates, TLS/SSL, user access, and policy administration

Strong knowledge of production support, platform monitoring, and incident response