Kafka Engineer
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This role is for a Kafka Engineer (Confluent Focus) on a 6–12 month remote contract, offering a competitive pay rate. Key requirements include 5+ years in distributed systems, 2+ years in Kafka administration, and proficiency in Python, Bash, and DevOps tools.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
August 29, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location type
Remote
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
United States
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Prometheus #Bash #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Replication #Automation #Observability #Kubernetes #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Monitoring #Disaster Recovery #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Ansible #DevOps #Terraform #Deployment #Python #Scripting #Zookeeper #Grafana #Cloud
Role description
Role: Kafka Admin Architect (Confluent Focus)
Location: Remote
Duration: 6–12 Months (Contract)
Key Responsibilities:
• Architect, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters using the Confluent Platform.
• Monitor and configure Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper/KRaft, Schema Registry, and Control Center.
• Implement topic-level configurations, RBAC, TLS/SASL, and auditing.
• Automate deployments and infrastructure provisioning using Helm, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Design and implement Disaster Recovery and replication strategies with Confluent Replicator or Cluster Linking.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines and enable Kafka infrastructure automation.
Required Skills:
• 5+ years in distributed systems / platform engineering.
• 2+ years in Kafka administration with Confluent.
• Deep understanding of Kafka internals, Kafka Connect, and Control Center.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Strong DevOps background with IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform) and container orchestration.
Preferred Skills:
• Experience with Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, GitOps workflows.
• Prior work in banking/financial services domain.
Role: Kafka Admin Architect (Confluent Focus)
Location: Remote
Duration: 6–12 Months (Contract)
Key Responsibilities:
• Architect, deploy, and manage Kafka clusters using the Confluent Platform.
• Monitor and configure Kafka Brokers, Zookeeper/KRaft, Schema Registry, and Control Center.
• Implement topic-level configurations, RBAC, TLS/SASL, and auditing.
• Automate deployments and infrastructure provisioning using Helm, Ansible, and Terraform.
• Design and implement Disaster Recovery and replication strategies with Confluent Replicator or Cluster Linking.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to enhance CI/CD pipelines and enable Kafka infrastructure automation.
Required Skills:
• 5+ years in distributed systems / platform engineering.
• 2+ years in Kafka administration with Confluent.
• Deep understanding of Kafka internals, Kafka Connect, and Control Center.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring/observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Strong DevOps background with IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform) and container orchestration.
Preferred Skills:
• Experience with Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, GitOps workflows.
• Prior work in banking/financial services domain.
