Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps - Kafka AdminDiverse Lynx • United States
Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps - Kafka Admin
Diverse Lynx
- United States
- United States
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Job Title: Technology Lead | Cloud Platform | Amazon Webservices DevOps -- Kafka Admin Work Location & Reporting Address: Denver, CO 80111 or St Louis, MO 63131 (Onsite) Contract duration: 12 Does this position require Visa independent candidates only? Yes Must Have Skills: • Must have deep, hands-on experience running Kafka in large-scale production environments, including cluster operations, upgrades, patches, and migrations. • Should understand Kafka internals such as partitions, replication, retention/compaction, and rebalance strategies. o Kafka Administration o Platform / SRE / DevOps Experience o Kafka Ecosystem Tools o Linux + Networking o Automation / Scripting o Monitoring / Observability o Disaster Recovery
Nice to Have Skills: • AWS MSK / Apache Kafka Cloud: Experience with MSK operations and cloud-aligned Kafka environments. • Helpful for cross-environment consistency between on-prem and cloud. • Hardware Refresh Experience: Prior work leading Kafka hardware refreshes or cluster rebuilds. Detailed Job Description:
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience: We're seeking a senior contract Kafka/Confluent administrator to own and evolve our on-prem event streaming platform, with a primary focus on Confluent Platform. You will lead planning and execution of a hardware refresh for our on-prem clusters, drive reliability and performance, and embed DevOps/automation across provisioning, deployment, observability, and incident response. Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK is desired for secondary support and cross-environment alignment. Comprehensive documentation and runbooks are required deliverables.
Kafka Platform Support Key Responsibilities • Design, deploy, and operate highly available Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, and/or managed services such as Confluent Cloud or AWS MSK). • Manage topics, partitions, quotas, retention policies, and consumer group strategies for performance and cost. • Own upgrades, patches, and migrations. • Implement and manage Kafka components: Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker/Confluent Replicator, REST Proxy; familiarity with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB is a plus. • Performance tuning (producers/consumers, batching, compression, acks, ISR, controller health), throughput testing, and benchmarking. • Capacity planning, partitioning strategy, and cluster right-sizing.
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.
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
Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Apache Kafka and AWS MSK operations and integration. • Experience executing hardware refreshes mor major cluster rebuilds/migrations with minimal downtime.
Minimum Years of Experience: • 5+ years
Certifications Needed: • None
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Interview Process (Is face to face required?) • FACE TO FACE INTERVIEW IS MANDATORY
ny additional information you would like to share about the project specs/nature of work: Drug test details: No
Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive due consideration for employment without any discrimination. All applicants will be evaluated solely on the basis of their ability, competence and their proven capability to perform the functions outlined in the corresponding role. We promote and support a diverse workforce across all levels in the company.
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