Section
Details
Job Title
Senior Kafka Administrator
Job Type
Contract
Client Location
Denver, CO or St. Louis, MO
Work Arrangement
On‑site
Duration
Long Term
Pay Rate / Salary
$55/hr on W2
Job Summary
Minimum Qualifications
· 5+ years in systems/platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps; 4+ years operating Kafka in production at scale.
· Deep knowledge of Kafka internals: partitions, replication, retention/compaction, rebalance strategies.
· Hands-on with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator.
· Strong Linux fundamentals; networking (TCP, DNS, load balancing), and performance analysis.
· Proficiency in automation/scripting.
· Monitoring/observability: Data Dog, Grafana, JMX exporters, and log aggregation.
· Experience with DR, multi-region design, and incident management.
· Proven ability to produce clear, comprehensive documentation
Key Responsibilities
Contract Deliverables
· Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register
· Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks
· Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.
· Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.
Required Qualifications
Contract Deliverables
Hardware refresh plan: capacity model, sizing, architecture diagrams, migration/cutover strategy, risk register
· Implement and validated on-prem clusters on refreshed hardware with performance benchmarks
· Operational documentation: standards, runbooks, monitoring/alerts configuration, backup/restore and DR playbooks.
· Knowledge transfer sessions and documentation handoff at milestones and project close.
